This assignment requires you to write an essay of at least 550 to 750 words on the following primary source. Within your essay you answer the questions found in this attached document, Bones of the Past as well as the following additional questions. Assume that your reader knows the questions you are answering, so don’t list them. Just have your essay contain the answers to the questions. Additional questions: What is the author’s proposal, and do you think he was serious in his proposal? What is satire?
What are three of his suggested advantages to the proposal?
Who was in control of Ireland at the time he was writing? [Note that the author was Irish.]
What might this author’s writing suggest about changes that might be needed in Ireland for the benefit of the Irish people?
How does the narrator of this proposal suggest that he is reasonable and practical?
