Analysis Of Flamingo Framing

Jennifer Price, in her essay "The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History," highlights the American culture's ridiculous obsession with displaying wealth through her use of diction, tone, and simile/metaphor. She depicts American culture as nonsensical, and thus ridiculous, because of its disposal of normal standards or logic in order to fulfill its materialistic desires which is shown through the popularity of the pink plastic flamingo in the 1950s.

In the essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” by Jennifer price; the author shows implicitly her idea and point of view on the topic on the United States culture. The idea is that the U.S.A‘s culture is very overbearing, this is shown by her view on how Americans are so worried with their image that is seen by society. Price uses many writing techniques to express her view on United States culture, by the usage of diction, tone, and symbolism Price is able to convey her analysis on the greed and the corruption occurring in the American culture.

In Jennifer Price’s “The Plastic Flamingo” she illustrates the cultural impact the pink flamingo had on the United States. Price conforms her idea of the United State’s culture by providing important historical details to better portray and reveal the true passions of America during the rapid rise of the plastic flamingo. Price’s overall view towards the United States would be that Americans are self conceited and obsessed with wealth.

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Jennifer Price’s essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” introduces the origins of the famous lawn ornaments. Price’s purpose is to educate about the hypocrisy of American culture and how many live a life of extravagance and fortune without raising a finger. She adopts an informative tone in the first paragraph that shifts to a sarcastic tone in order to exemplify the state of insincerity of the American ways to the citizens of America.

It’s crazy to think how one of the greatest super powers in the world is home to probably the most superficial, show off, easily influenced group of people in the world. From the very beginning America has been a melting pot of adaptations with nothing in our culture, even our blood line, being true American. We have this desire to show off to everyone around us about or trips and wealth whether it be with t-shirts and pictures or pink flamingos. In an essay entitled “The Plastic Pink Flamingo…” Jennifer Price uses these 1950’s lawn ornaments as a way to demonstrate her views on American culture.

In Jennifer Price’s essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” (1999), she proclaims that the United States has embraced the pink flamingo and its history. The author utilizes benevolent diction, enlightening metaphor, and alluding allusion. Price’s purpose to get people to understand the beauty of the pink flamingo in order to show her view of how the flamingo changed the culture of the United States. The author writes in a admirable tone for her audience of American citizens.

Jennifer Price in the essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” explains her point of view of the American Culture. Price supports her explanation by providing examples and explaining the history of the American Culture and the flamingos. The author’s purpose is to point out the greed in order to further explain her opinion on the American Culture. Price entertains her audience by mocking the American Culture by using symbolism, ethos, and tone in her essay.

represent her opinion of the United States as a whole. Price writes “In ancient Egypt, it

Like the Rubik Cube in the 80’s or smart phones of today’s generation something has caught the attention of citizens, even a plastic pink bird that took the 50’s by storm. In the essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History,” Jennifer Price uses multiple rhetorical devices to demonstrate how American culture has been influenced.

Established magazine writer Jennifer Price’s essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, argues that America’s culture is excessively concerned with material items, and much less concerned with individuality. Price addresses her opinion of American culture through syntax, diction, and tone. Price conveys her opinion of American culture through her use of syntax. In the second paragraph, Price discusses America’s past according to flamingos, crafting her sentence using exceptional syntax to reveal her true feelings towards the United States.

In the 1950’s, the pink flamingo became not just an American lawn ornament that was a fun decoration, but also a status symbol of wealth and pizazz. Jennifer Prices essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, Price uses tone and diction to provide her opinion on the ignorant and foolish actions of the American in the 1950’s regarding the plastic pink flamingo. Price uses a sarcastic tone throughout the piece to help reveal her opinion on the American Culture. In the title of the essay, Price calls the flamingo “plastic” while also saying “natural”. She is stating that the flamingo is naturally made when it is actually man made out of bright pink plastic.

The author, Jennifer Price used similes, imagery and satire throughout the passage “The Plastic Pink Flamingo:A Natural History”. Each device is used for a particular reason and helps bring the purpose of the passage together. The purpose of this passage is to depict how we as individuals are basically immature with our money and waste our money on things that aren’t as necessary and that we could do without. We have to keep in mind when we are reading her passage, that she grew up in the Great Depression so her stance is different than ours when it comes to money.

In Jennifer Price’s “The Plastic Pink Flamingos: A Natural History,”she gives a brief history about the pink flamingo and its iconic meaning in America’s pop culture. In addition to the meaning behind the pink flamingo, she connects her historical context to reveal her thoughts on American culture. In the text, Price utilizes historical allusions and extravagant diction and asks us to experience her frustration with today’s American society and asks us to consider her criticism towards America’s romanticization of materialistic things.

Jennifer Price, author of “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, analyzes the imminent- yet strange- popularity of the accessory that could be found on just about every lawn in America during the 1950’s. While discussing the history of the plastic pink flamingo and generally the color pink, Price reveals her view that American culture is both ignorant and frivolous; she does so by incorporating stylistic elements such as selection of detail, juxtaposition, and sarcasm.