Answer:
In Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," the narrator suggests that the children of beggars in Ireland have only three options when they grow up: they can become thieves, they can join the army, or they can beg for a living like their parents. The narrator proposes a "modest" solution to this problem, which is to turn the children into a source of food by selling them as delicacies to wealthy individuals. However, the proposal is satirical and meant to criticize the heartless economic policies that had led to such extreme poverty in Ireland at the time.