... in the office. Swift, here satirizes the candidates for a vacant office who will say anything, irrespective of their political conviction, in order to convince the chiefminister. There are also several descriptions of Flimnap, who is thought to represent the chiefminister Sir Robert Walpole: Flimnap would have infallibly broke his neck, if one of the King's Cushions, that accidentally lay on the ... in the office. Swift, here satirizes the candidates for a vacant office who will say anything, irrespective of their political conviction, in order to convince the chiefminister. There are a...

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• Grade Level: High School

... people in this story are nothing more than animals. We are told how the children are a burden and how instead of requiring food and clothing the rest of their lives, they will contribute to the feeding and clothing of many people. Any intelligent person would assume he intends to put them in factories or farms to work and not be on the ... ...

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... people in this story are nothing more than animals. We are told how the children are a burden and how instead of requiring food and clothing the rest of their lives, they will contribute to the feeding and clothing of many people. Any intelligent person would assume he intends to put them in factories or farms to work and not be on the ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... would not be if his style were that of any of the other satirists mentioned. The audience he is writing for is not interested in thought provoking wit or grotesque descriptions of slaughterhouses or hellish futures. The American population wants laugh out loud humor and they"ll read a book for it. O"Rourke is successful because he can make them laugh and ... ...

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... their children, [the parents would] be rid of the charge of maintaining them after the first year"( ). This means that these parents will no longer have to worry about feeding, clothing, and finding income to take care of these children. In addition, selling these children for human consumption brings in a great income, enough for the wife and husband to live and ... ...

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... a person who could think of a "fair, cheap, and easy" (492) way to make these children useful would be a hero. His proposals would "contribute to the feeding; and partly to the clothing, of many thousands" (492). Another advantage, he says, would be that voluntary abortions and the practice of women murdering their children would end. He makes his proposal hoping no one ... ...

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