<span>The statement that best describe reporter Adam Ellick's viewpoint of Malal from the excerpt is the second choice.
Malala displays the characteristics of both a capable activist and a bright young girl. </span>
At every point of Swift proposal the reader from today gets the idea he is being ironic.This way he is critisizing the attitudes an ideas of the time.In order to improve a financial situation people would sell their souls.Contemporaries could not understand and tought of it as a sacrifice, today it is something different, the idea is satirizised