The reading is very interesting and weird at the same time. I had to read the passage three times to make some connections in the story. A Modest Proposal gives alot of information and I think the concept of the story is to find a cheap and easy way for preventing children from starving in Ireland. The poverty is very bad and the women would have 3,4 and 6 children all in rags because the women couldn't support all of those children. The women of Ireland didn't work they just used all their time begging in the streets to feed and cloth their children. So they came up with this idea to fatten up the undernourished children and feed them to the Ireland's rich land-owners which wasn't a pretty good idea to me. I think they have went way to far and could really stand to go back to the drawing board and think again. Children of the poor could be sold into a market at the age of one will help families fight unemployment and the expense of having a child and not being able to care for them and providing them with extra money by selling their children. Then they give stats that support their theory or data about the number of children to be sold, their weight and price. The authors says their outcome will result in husbands treating their wives better, parents valuing their children a little more. Seems like Ireland is having a population problem.