The speaker of A Modest Proposal is Jonathan Swift, this piece is set in Dublin, Ireland, and A Modest Proposal shows how there are many poor unfortunate children out there living the streets and wants to find a way to get them off the streets and away from poverty. Swift's aim is to try to help the poor and unfortunate children who live there alone without their parents being able to support them. Swift's audience is people living in Ireland and also parents out there who have children and are having trouble supporting their children and also richer families who can draw conclusions and help run foundations to help these poor unfortunates children, but while Swift satirizes he also addresses the English so they can hopefully see their lack of mortality. The problem in A Modest Proposal is that there are more and more homeless children living on the streets and we haven't done anything about it. The context is at the beginning of this piece, when Swift is traveling through Dublin, Ireland, and sees all these poor people on the street and all the beggars wanting a job or some money. Swift is the one making the argument in this piece about homelessness and the mortality of the English. Swift is a writer born on November 30, 1667 in Dublin Ireland, he was also a writer who always believed in the things he wrote about. Swift is not a partisan character and her target audience would appear to be mainly Irish, but in reality she is more aimed at the English. Swift structures his argument using irony, satire, and sarcasm. Swift's arguments make us assume that he is angry at the English who abandon the poor Irish on the streets... middle of paper... these emotions by providing hard facts and giving you images of what you really are by reading, when he says to walk on the streets, you can almost hear the beggars asking for work and money, and you can actually visualize the poor people holding out their hands asking for money. A Modest Proposal doesn't show any happy emotions in this piece because it's trying to make you feel bad for the poor people and all the beggars who need work or money. It does goodwill because Swift makes you want to go out and help poor children from the streets and demonstrates why the English have bad mortality. Swift does not refute the opposing claims because she wants to show sad and melancholy emotions in this piece. This was left out of the piece because Swift wants you to feel bad because she is telling the sad facts about the poor Irish children who are out there homeless.