Summary Of The Plastic Pink Flamingos

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.

Scattered in lawns throughout the United States, the pink flamingo is an American icon. We all know, and probably don’t love them. But how do people who are living outside of the United States or who are new to life in the United States view them? Jennifer Price has just the answer. In her essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, Jennifer Price uses diction, cultural allusions, and organization to reveal her view of the American Population as superficial, materialistic, and trivial.

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.

Egypt was born in 1903 and raised near Clarksville in northeast rural Texas (Ward, 2011). She lived with her parents and older half sister, Sudie, for the first five years of her life. Egypt’s father was a teacher who valued education and emphasized the importance of reading, writing, and oral presentation to his children. When Egypt was five years old, her mother died. After this tragic event, Egypt and Sudie were sent to live on a farm with their maternal grandparents because their father felt incapable of raising two daughters alone. Egypt’s

In sprawling suburbs across America, lies the remnants of a different era. In those few houses left relatively untouched and never remodeled, one can see the markings of the 1950s, an era of kitchens and bathrooms decorated in a monochrome of Hot Pink, just like the plastic pink lawn flamingos. In her essay, Jenniffer Price discusses the history of the flamingos in the United States and uses them as a symbol of America’s culture. Through her use of diction and imagery in the essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, Jennifer Price characterizes American Culture as materialistic.

She has lost all credibility due to recent scandals. I believe she is unfit to become president, both physically and politically. Although FDR was ill as president and propelled the nation in a desperate time, we as a country are not desperate enough to elect a president that is not healthy. She may be the candidate with more political experience, but with recent revelations about the Clintons, it makes her the worse candidate. My background and heritage may make me an unlikely Trump supporter, but that proves just how I little trust I have for HRC. This speech did not cause any change on my views or beliefs, as a matter of fact, it just confirmed my views. In her intent to humor her wealthy crowd, she really made a case for all supporters of Donald Trump by making these heinous remarks. Her comment opened the floodgates and allowed for criticism about her hypocritical stance on issues. Hillary Clinton did exactly what the media, politicians, and her own team accuse Trump and his supporters of doing; making insensitive and politically incorrect comments. The Trump team is taking advantage of this horrific comment and spinning it as if it was a scarlet letter, with the sole purpose of spiting Clinton. The word deplorable has gone as far as being printed on baseball caps, t-shirts, and even bumper stickers. Fortunately for them, supporters are responding positively. This comment was poor judgement

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.

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 passage from “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” by Jennifer Price allow readers to understand her view on United States culture. Price uses of repetition, connotation, syntax, tone, imagery, and diction in her text help form her opinion on United States culture. Not only does Price believes that Americans let their obsession with color and their monetary status take over their lives but also demonstrate the importance of the pink flamingos.

In the NPR article,“Flamingos In The Men's Room: How Zoos And Aquariums Handle Hurricanes” by Danny Nett he talks about what the hurricanes and aquariums did in florida to prepare for Irma. He talks about the emergency plan that the zoo and aquarium took to protect the workers and animals working there. He talks with the CEO of the company that owns the zoo and the communications director on there plan to stay put in the Hurricane. Is this the right plan or are they putting the animals and workers lives at risk? In my opinion, the zoo made there right desice because there are so many other disasters that could happen more if they try

Kingsolver’s novel demonstrates the connection between the ideas of American Dream and Imperialism by showing us that the ideas of the American Dream drives imperialism. Kingsolver’s novel introduced the Price Family; a cast of characters that resembled an all-perfect-American 50’s sitcom family. Like many Americans and their families alike, the Prices’ carried the common belief that America was the greatest nation the world has ever seen. That America and its inhabitants appeared as the embodiment of democracy, freedom, development and it was their job to spread their civilization to backward countries such as the Congo. Similar to many American’s in that era (50s-60s), The Prices believed they held a responsibility to carry America’s legacy

Michelle Obama’s 2016 Democratic National Convention Speech was beautifully presented; as she spoke about the issues that faces Mrs. Clinton as well as herself, education, health and welfare of this nation as a whole and why Hillary Clinton should be the next president of the United States of America. As I listen to this speech I realized that Michelle Obama uses rhetorical devices and appeals throughout this entire speech, and frankly since her purpose is to persuade the people of the this country to vote for Hillary I think Michelle Obama took the right approach. I get a strong sense of honesty from the first lady as she talks about why Ms. Clinton is worthy enough to take on the mantle of leadership for our great nation. After listening to my speech multiple times I notice how Michelle Obama also uses amplification, which is the expansion of detail to clarify a point. Then as I continued to listen to the speech I also realized how the first lady also uses anaphora, which is the repetition of one or more words at the head of consecutive phrases, clauses, or sentences. Next I saw how the first lady utilizes both ethos and pathos to help convince the citizens of America that Hillary Clinton deserves their vote. Through the use of these rhetorical devices and appeals, Mrs. Obama’s speech is made very strong and convincing.