"Modest Proposal" Questions

1. Swift creates the persona of the author as someone who seems to be willing to get rid of everyone if they are becoming a burden to society.

2. The real thesis: "...I have not the least personal interest in endeavoring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country, by advancing our trade...".

3. In the last few paragraphs of the essay, there are obvious differences between the proposer and Swift, because Swift states his real proposal.

4. In Swift's essay, he is attacking the people that want to find solutions quickly, no matter how stupid or risky they are. Swift's attitude for the beggars is that he doesn't want the children to burden their parents or the country. In the essay Swift associates himself as wealthy.

5.No, the essay isn't completely a satire. Swift presents a real proposal in the last few paragraphs of the essay.

6. The essay is organized in the problem and solution for babies, and then 1-12 year old children and finally the elderly, maimed or ill.

7. When Swift states his real proposal it strengthens his moment, in my opinion.

8. In some parts of Swift's proposal, he was lighthearted, making it horation, but when he talked about selling babies to eat them as a way to solve the problem of babies in poor families, that idea was juvenalian.

9. The word modest in the title is an understatement because the proposal is the opposite, which also makes it ironic.

10. Hyperbole: Swift claims that selling and eating babies would be the best solution to everything.
Understatement: The title uses the word modest, thought that is the opposite of the actual proposal.

11. People are trying to fix problems with the cheapest and easiest solutions, like Swift's proposal.


Example of Logos:
Example of Pathos

Shrek and Satire

In the clip, instead of Shrek protecting her, Fiona fights while he watches her. In a typical fairytale the man that saves the princess fights for her and protects her because the princess doesn't know how to protect herself.

Exaggeration-
Incongruity- Fiona takes time during the fight to fix her hair.
Reversal- Fiona takes the normal role of "the knight in shining armor"
Parody- In the fight scene, Fiona goes in slo-mo like The Matrix.

Why I want a wife questions

1. Does this essay have an explicitly stated thesis? If so, what is it? If you believe the thesis is implied, paraphrase it in your own words.
Yes, this essay has a thesis. The thesis is in the form of a question; "Why do I want a wife?".

2. Throughout the essay, Brady repeats the words “I want a wife.” What is the effect of this repetition? 
When Brady repeats "I want a wife", she is reminding her readers the purpose of her essay.



3. Brady never uses the personal pronouns he or she to refer to the wife she defines. Why not?
Brady wants her wife to be an ideal wife, a picture in her readers' heads. She also doesn't use he or she because she hasn't given her "wife" a gender, just because it is her "wife" doesn't necessarily  mean that it is a woman or a man.

4. Do you think Brady really wants the kind of wife she describes—does this ideal spouse

actually exist? Explain why you think Brady wrote this essay.

I think that Brady is being sarcastic throughout this essay, I feel that she is describing what society wants men to expect in their wives and she is showing how ridiculous it is to expect characteristics like this in a spouse.

5. How does Brady define what it means to be a “wife”? How does she organize the many services a wife provides her husband and family? What do you think of Brady’s characterization of a wife and her responsibilities? How do you think she wants her readers to respond to this characterization? Why?
Brady defines what it means to be a "wife" as someone who does everything for their spouse in order to make them happy. Her characterization of a wife and her responsibilities are those of the ideal spouse. I feel that Brady wants her readers to realize how ridiculous it sounds because that is the way society portrayed wives then.  

6. Write a letter to Brady responding to “I Want a Wife.” Let her know what you admire or don’t admire about the essay and the extent to which you consider it effective and/or persuasive.
Dear Judy Brady,
I enjoy your essay, "I Want a Wife". In the essay you explain reasons that you want a wife and I admire the sarcasm or satire that you use to describe what you'd want in a wife. Overall, I like the essay and I feel that there isn't really anything negative that i could say about it.
Sincerely, Alexus Dyer

7. Write your own piece entitled “I Want a/an X.” You can use Brady’s essay as a model, and in the process, imitate some of her stylistic techniques. Or, alternatively, write an essay about the role of a “wife” in the early twenty-first century, explaining how a wife’s responsibilities complement and are complemented by those of a spouse.

Why I want a math class.

I want a math class so that when I become an adult and I need to find the sine, cosine or tangent of something, I'll look back and be glad that I took that math class. I want a math class so that when people ask me what class I hate the most, I will happily answer with "Math." I want a math class so that I can get confused and stressed out over problems that are more simple than the teacher lets you know. I want a math class so that I can stay up all night trying to answer one problem on my homework from my math class. I want a math class so that when my child is in high school, I can be useless and not be able to help him/her at all with his/her math homework. I want a math class so that the grade from it can drop my GPA dramatically. I want a math class so that I can sit in my room, on the night before a big math test, trying to figure out a way to study  the material. I want a math class because everything I learn in there will be used in real life, including trigonometry and geometry. I want a math class so that I can sit around confused, and lost. That is why I want a math class.

What's done in the dark comes to light. (lightswitch)

The lightswitch flipped on, causing light to flood the room, exposing a bloody carpet and walls streaked with blood. Blood dripped out of the closet, covered the bed, and splattered the dresser. Though the detective was used to scenes like this, he'd never seen something this extreme, especially in the quiet neighborhood on 56th street. "My God, what happened in here?"
"Neighbors say they heard screamin' and then soon after they called the us, a car sped outta here like a bat outta hell," the short cop answered.
"License plate number?"
"Nah, apparently the screamin' was so terrifying that they all hid after they called us"
"Anything about the family who lived here?"
"Uh, just two adults. They kept to themselves a lot, not a lot of people knew too much about 'em."
"I'll come back with my crew," the detective said, flipping off the lights and closing the door to the small bedroom. As the detective turned away from the door he glanced at the red stain on the officer's hand. Was he imagining it? He cleared his throat to say something when the officer's walky talky interupted; "Hey, Bill there was a murder on 56th street, neighbors just called it in. Are you done with your break? We can go check it out."
The officer glanced at the detective and responded, "Uh, yeah. Actually, I'm just done the street, meet you there in 15 minutes?"
"Yeah, roger that." the staticky backround went silent. All at once everything started to make sense to the detective, everything was exposed, like a lightswitch flipped on in a room.
"How did you know about the murder before anyone reported it?" the detective asked, though he knew the answer.
"Those people were stirrin' up trouble in this town, no one would suspect a cop would try to get rid of him," Bill answered, slowly creeping toward the detective.
"Why did you bring me here?"
"I knew that if you searched the scene well enough you might be able to trace it back to me." The cop had a gun now and was aiming it at the detective. The detective charged at Bill and they fell to the floor as they fought for a handle on the gun. One gunshot sounded in the air. Bill was gone, he stopped the struggle as he ended up like the family of two had in their own bedroom.
"What's done in the dark comes to light, officer," the detective said, walking down the stairs and out of the door.