How does the narrator's point of view help to emphasize the central ideas of the excerpt?

A The narrator's excitement about Christmas suggests that children are easily distracted from important issues.
B The narrator's perspective emphasizes how frightening the adults' stories are for children who do not understand adult problems.
C The narrator's age makes her too young to appreciate the adults' stories, which creates confusion in the story.
D The narrator's love for her family makes the adults' stories even more personal and gives them more emotional impact.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .