Gaines' novel enlightens people that it doesn't matter if you didn't commit the crime, do the time even if you are around. Swift wrote his ideas to the public in neoclassical styles. Gaine's novel and Swift's proposal consisted of a comparison between two classes/races. A lesson before he died included blacks against whites and Swift included poor against rich. Every man tried to make a difference in his own time period by simply trying to prove himself innocent with a war between white (rich) and black (poor) or trying to end