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3. Clarify Reread lines 222-229. Why does Swift feel that his proposal is

superior to others that have been put forward?

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User Dmitry F
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It will cost nothing, and the Irish can do it themselves.

Step-by-step explanation:

In "A Modest Proposal," Jonathan Swift makes ironically suggests that one year-old babies should be sold and eaten up as food. In that respect, he mentions that such a business could be easily performed at home, so poor Irish people could make a profit out of a homegrown product. As a result of that, the Irish would have more food available, and there would be fewer poor people living in hardship and oppression.

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