Irish, educated, father and husband. All these titles make Jonathan Swift more than qualified to be the author of “A Modest Proposal,” published in 1729. In it he discussed the astonishing poverty that was sweeping across the Irish nation, his native country, in the early 18th century , that in his opinion opinion was not the work of the nations. He adopts a sarcastic tone to show the Irish people the injustices being imposed on them and to inspire his fellow countrymen to rise out of poverty and stand up against those who kept them subjugated. During the 1720s, the Irish people were suffering greatly, due to oppression by Great Britain. Oppression there came in the form of displacement by wealthy Englishmen who bought land in Ireland and then did not live there. They would proceed to lease some of their land to the Irish at an extremely high rent, which ultimately led to them being unable to pay rent or provide food or clothing for their families. The reason behind Swift's proposal is simple. He's an Irishman. He has a sense of patriotic duty to try to help his fellow Irishmen. He wants them to know that it is possible to get out of poverty and out of the oppression of the English. He structures his essay through a basic form of presenting an idea and then supporting it with "facts" such as children's weight growth or expert reports on children's tastes from a credible source. Something Swift assumes audiences will take for granted. He also assumes that the public will not simply dismiss his article as the ramblings of a madman who talks about eating babies as if it were a normal, everyday thing. Jonathan Swift cleverly created a proposition on...... half of paper... I've already devoured most of the parents, it seems like they have the best title for kids." He tried to make parents understand that the present they live in will become their children's future. Swift's use of these appeals helped her audience take such a ridiculous proposition as something serious. If one could see through the veil created by all the sarcasm and the satirical diction, we would see a man who only wants to help his nation in its hour of need. Jonathan Swift created a discussion around a crazy idea, eating babies, but he intentionally excluded opponents given this idea. He chooses instead to present alternatives to his solution with more reasonable solutions in order to induce the public to think about those in a way that they would not have done previously