I found this piece of writing to be quite interesting as I thought what kind of a person would actually resort to eating children as food or sell their own children to landlords. As I read and thought about it, no one would. Swift couldn’t have been serious throughout the essay. Eating children as a method of reducing poverty and overpopulation? Ridiculous. Reducing ones own burden and the burden of ones country would be great but not by selling your own kid.
This essay reminds me of an article I read about India and how children are being sold each and everyday. Boys are being sold to work in factories with little or no pay and girls born are sometimes just killed because they are females. In India, marrying off a daughter is a burden for many as it requires a dowry of some sort. For most people in India, that isn’t possible. Although this essay is a satire, some of the things mentioned in it happen each and everyday through counties worldwide.
