Directions: As you read A Modest Proposal, answer the following questions.

Swift Begins by presenting a problem. What is the problem he sees?

What does the author say about Americans?

What is Swift’s solution to problem of poverty, famine, and overpopulation in Ireland?

What does Swift saw about wealthy landlords in Ireland?

What does Swift say about the Catholic Church and papists?

Aside from food, how else does Swift propose the eating of children will benefit the Irish?

In Swift’s opinion how will eating babies change marriage in Ireland?

What real solutions does Swift present to poverty, famine, and overpopulation in Ireland?

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing

based on the biblical principle proverbs 16: 32, i agree with the author of the passage "better is it that it takes longer to be angry than the strong " to the extent that i share the philosophy that the nobility of heart demonstrates the strength of a person. those who are very proud, get angry easily and show their anger toward others are really weak, but those who are noble and do not constantly obfuscate or contain their feelings of anger, are strong people

the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.