a modest proposal

Jonathan Swifts "a modest proposal" seemed kind of out there to me. All this talk about higher class people eating infants for meals. I had just never heard anything like it. While reading the essay, it was a bit difficult to understand what he was trying to propose, or what side he was even on. But when I read the final conclusion, I figured out that he was against the eating children for dinner, and for the common good of society. The essay kind of hit me as he was trying to preach what he believed. Like he was trying to get people to see the proper side to life.