Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal." Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants, the mother will have eight shillings neat profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child. On which false premise does this excerpt rely?

That the woman would be willing to breed children to sell.

Explanation:

"A Modest Proposal" is a satirical essay written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The purpose of this essay was to bring to light the impoverished conditions of the Irish people.

Swift has satirically asked the Irish women to breed their children till the age one and sell them to the rich people for food. This way these Irish people will be able to ease the economic conditions of England.

This satirical hyperbole essay was written not to take the words literally but it was a mock on the lack of any British Policies for impoverished Irish and on the heartless and rich people of England.

The false premise of the given excerpt is that a woman should bear and feed her children only to be given to rich people for food to earn money. Swift does not literally mean to ask women to sell their children for food to the rich.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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