Referring to p. 587 in Writing with Power, think of a question to pose to the classroom discussion board regarding one of the to
pics below. Your question should be insightful and meaningful; provide your classmates with an opportunity to consider elements of each topic that have yet to be covered in your lessons. You will not receive credit if your question is one that can be answered with “yes” or “no.” Comparison of postmodernism to the twenty-first century
Irony in Updike’s “A&P”
Satire in Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”
Themes expressed by the Beat Generation
The effects of war on literature
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
"During the shop’s peak hours – from eight in the evening till around midnight – one could hardly hear oneself talk because of the boisterous chatters that went on."
