Why would an author choose to use satire?

To inform and provoke the audience to force them in taking action.

Explanation:

A satire is a rhetorical device used by the speaker or the author to expose the corruption and follies prevailing in the society. The author creates satire using the tools of irony and humor in an exaggerated manner also to create the urgency of taking steps or actions.

The purpose of satire is to entertain as well as to inform the audience to take actions or steps in regards of the cause, raised in the satirical text.

'A Modest Proposal' written by Jonathan Swift is an example of a satire.

A writer or an author choose to use satire to

- a.) the man dies after he is unable to keep a fire lit.