Answer:
The best choices to answer the question: What should a complete summary of "A Modest Proposal" include? Would be: 1. A paraphrase of the main ideas in "A Modest Proposal", 2. An explanation of the meaning and purpose of the satire and finally, 3. Some quotations that serve as evidence of Swift´s ideas.
Explanation:
"A Modest Proposal" is a satirical essay that was published in 1729 anonymously by Jonathan Swift. The essay basically proposes a very novel way in which the British government might handle the problem of poor people and the lack of opportunities in Ireland, by literally offering the chance of poor families selling their youngest children, so that aristocratic people in England might use them for food. In this way, Swift proposes, the problem might have a double solution: no more poor people, and good food for those who can afford such a luxurious dinner.
Because of the very controversial proposal made by Swift in his essay, and what it accused certain people in Britain of being, the essay did not go down well, and it took a lot of time before anyone saw the satire in it, or approved of it. When making a summary for people to read and understand the true ideas and concepts behind the irony and harsh superficial proposals, it is good to, of course, paraphrase certain portions where the main ideas are being expressed, but it is even more important to both provide an explanation to the ideas chosen (since they propose such an outrageous idea), and quotations because they provide direct proof that what has been selected as part of the summar is actually supported by the essay itself.
