ASSIGNMENT ON RESPONSE LETTERS

Running Head: RESPONSE LETTERS
Response Letters
Name of the student
Name of the University
Author’s Name

RESPONSE LETTERSFirst ResponseFirst Response1
First Response
Though there has been a debate about the presence and absence of similarities between
your essay “A Modest Proposal” and my poem “Nikki Rosa”, the point that intrigues me in the
satire is the usage of tone where you are so direct that it is hard for the readers to understand the
sarcastic setting of the essay. The essay subtly sets apart the concept of happiness and wealth for
the Black and White which was due to the pamphlets doing the round during the time asking the
black parents to start selling their children in the European market to help them with their
poverty (Giovanni).
The character reliving her childhood in the poem might have reacted in the same way as
the Swift did to the pamphlets and the essay resonates Nikki’s thought process where she cannot
comprehend and accepts the fact that the White people could ever understand what their unity
means to them and that though they had a broken bath and a drinking dad, they were always
together and standing with each other. The politician criticizing the begging condition on the
road could not be made to understand the happiness of the child hanging at the back of her
mother or around the neck when their mother looks at them lovingly (Swift).
Second Response
As a reader trying to fit into the shoes of one of the begging parent and responding to
swift writing, I would have thanked him for telling his people the things they wanted to hear in
the right tone they deserved. Swift’s proposal to selling the kid and then later adding that the
tender meat of the children will taste very delicious if left in the hands of a capable cook
(Giovanni). As a progeny of the begging parents, I would have liked to thank swift for being the
voice of the population who were not added to the literature at that time.