a summary of a book I had to read for school

Tale of the tub summary   by me.
11-16-10
Tale of the tub was written by Jonathan Swift. It is comprised of eleven sections, and a conclusion. The type in the copy that I read was incredibly small and therefore hard to read and comprehend. I will now summarize the book by taking a quote or making up a summary from each section.
Section one: “---evadere ad aurus, Hoe opus hic labor est. ---Vergil” or as conveniently translated in the footnotes,  “But to return and view the cheerful skies, in this task and mighty labor lies. –Dryden. Section two: (the most interesting one, actually) “Once upon a time…” there was a man who had three sons and he could not tell who was the oldest, so when he was dying he gave them each a cloak, and told them never to take them off. The sons did well for a while, and then shoulder knots became the fashion, so they consulted the will to see if they could add shoulder knots to their cloaks. They picked out the letters to make the word shoulder, but could not find a “k” anywhere, so they decided that “k” was a modernish letter, and should hereafter the three of them always spell it with a ‘c’. They made a bunch more excuses like that, and in the footnotes were likened to the papist on the account of them always making excuses and finding loopholes.  Section three: It is called A digression concerning critics. I have found this chapter quite dull, and will not bother you with a description of it. Section four: This goes back to the story of the sons, and their names are Peter, Jack, and Martin. In this section, Peter declares himself the eldest, and makes titles for himself, and he gets wealthy. Section five: Is called A digression in the modern kind. This section is like section three in its dullness, and I will spare the reader the pain of reading a summary on it. Section six: This section returns to the brothers. Peter is wealthy while Jack and Martin are not.  Jack and Martin are living together in their destitution, and have decided to go back to the cloaks and the will, and live by what their father wished. They take all the adornments off their cloaks, Jack who does this hastily rips his cloak, while Martin does this carefully. The brothers all grow apart. Section seven: This is a digression in praise of digressions. Section eight: Jack is said to be mad. Section nine: This section is a digression concerning the original, the use, and the improvement of madness in a commonwealth. Section ten: This section is a farther digression.  Section eleven: Eventually Jack and Peter team up against Martin, but if either of them are in trouble, the other abandons him.
I have no clue why he wrote this book. Or why it is called the Tale of the tub.

The End.