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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
"A Modest Proposal"
This story was about a man giving a sarcastic proposal to some of society's problems. He proposes eating babies as a solution to people's economic problems. He also says that they can be rid of Catholics because they don't believe in birth control. He uses sarcasm to present the problem with society of the large gap between social classes, and he hints to it being the fault of the upper class that the lower class is so poor.
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nice, good summary of the Modest Proposal. I didn't even realize until after reading it that he was talking about the society gap. pretty weird way of getting a point across.
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Nice summary kody... and ya like deege said but i didnt even think of it that way until you said it!!!
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