Running head: A MODEST PROPOSAL
A Modest Proposal children of poor in Ireland Countries
Tracey Green Grubbs
Strayer University

Abstract
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift was about how he had an idea of preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden on their parents or country by showing how they could be beneficial to the public. This would be done by breeding their children for profit I would have thought it would end one way and it ends in a different way this would be called a surprise ending. I intend to show what the surprise ending was.

A Modest Proposal children of poor in Ireland Countries
The surprise ending of how Jonathan Swift professed the sincerity of his heart on how he had no personal interest in endeavoring to promote this necessary work and that he had no other motive but the public good of his country by providing for infants, relieving the poor and giving pleasure to the rich. Swift, J. (1729).
I realized at the point in the story he was telling that he was talking and said “Therefore I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients ‘till he hath at least some glimpse of hope. He did not want this to take place he was suggesting that the way the poor people are in Ireland was symbolic equivalent of what was actually happening in Ireland to Irish families and their children.(Sayre,2011 p.775)
This scheme of breeding for profit and because the parents were to poor to take care of them was a scheme that to me made no sense at all until you look at it in the perspective that some people would do this I thinks it is something I couldn’t consider or could I? This is what Jonathan Swift I believe was trying to make a point about how Irish Families are poor and the breeding for profit scheme would sound appealing to parents who just can’t afford to take care of them. (Tracey, 2012)