In “A Modest Proposal” Swift states “young healthy child well nourished is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food”(699) in the hopes that the audience will get upset by the suggestion he put forward of eating and selling poor children. This he does intentionally so as to provoke an emotional response in his readers as well as to challenge them into taking action in solving the problem. This is because their continued silence and ignorance of this matter was compared or the same as, to sacrificing the children as he had suggested in his essay. This was a strategic move on his side in the essay, it was mainly targeting the paternal feelings of human beings; a very tender and soft place to concentrate on, when addressing people, and one that is likely to cause them to act. However, to some extent it can be noted that his efforts were not very successful because we still have poor people who are