From the excerpt from a modest proposal the poor tenants will have something valuable of their own which bailame be made liable to distress and to pay their landlords rent their corn and cattle being already seized and money is a thing unknown what is most likely to be true about the author

The author seems to be considerate and empathetic as he tends to show compassion towards the poor Irish children and their parents.

He talks about the extremely discriminating trend followed by the elite class of England where the poor tenants are made to sacrifice their children, because they do not have the rent to pay, and feed the landlords on their meat.

The author discourages this deal and criticize the wealthy landlords who spend their time eating fine dishes and consider the poor to sacrifice for their survival.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”