English

Marley Riggs

1 October, 11:03

Consider the following passage:

I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration that of the hundred and twenty thousand children already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed, whereof only one-fourth part to be males; which is more than we allow to sheep, black cattle or swine.

Why might Swift have included this passage?

A. To criticize a certain way of thinking about the poor

B. To show that the narrator thinks of the children of the poor as a kind of livestock

C. To show the reader that the narrator is not a decent person

D. All of the above