Satire In A Modest Proposal

Many people see or hear about tragedies around the world; however, few actually do something about it. People seem to think that the news, itself, will fix the problem. This idea is incorrect according to John Swift and T. Coraghessan Boyle. Both authors propose solutions that are ironic and abstractly forward and blunt for a problem in their lives. In “A Modest Proposal”, the theme of the short story is all but modest. The proposal is that the people of Ireland should start eating babies in order to dilute the population and to provide money (to, for example, the renters) for the poor who cannot afford food. John Swift uses this ironic satire in order to catch the reader's attention. It is his way of saying ‘here is a ridiculous idea, now think of an actual solution’. The solution that Swift proposes is one that would work but is deemed immoral.
Swifts word choices are disturbing and gruesome, in order to pull emotions out of the readers. Swift is trying to make the readers dislike his idea so that they will propose an idea to fix the problem that will actually work. The work is a little exaggerated because I believe that a person's morals would kick in and they would not be able to actually eat babies. In “Top of the Food Chain” the people and country in the story are infested in mosquitoes. The news is recording the mass problem but is not actually doing anything about it. So T. Coraghessan Boyle has the people of the country come up with a plan that would obviously not work but is the only thing that they are able to think of. They create a cycle by bring a large quantity of animals higher on the food chain to eat the lower class animals. For example to kill the mosquitoes the people of the country bring in a large mass of geckos. Boyle has created ironic