... might not ultimately have the same effect. Satire can be used in many ways to get a message delivered to a specific audience. In Jonathon Swift's "A Modest Proposal," Swift's technique resembles Trey Parker and Matt Stone's of South Park. In "A Modest Proposal," Swift is targeting the poor people in Ireland. He comes up with a solution to the problem of poor people having children. He takes a serious ... think that poor people having children is such a big problem. His solution is to eat babies! This is obviously completely unrealistic. Appearance versus reality is once again a gap in t...

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