Most people have noticed the occasional pink flamingo on a yard or theme to some building but most are unaware of how deeply ingrained this icon is to America. The pink flamingo is one of the many forgotten fads that American have gone through. Jennifer Price gives a quick history about how the flamingo came on the scene and what it meant to the American people. The trend of pink flamingoes in the mid 1900’s shows how American people go through the cycle of overusing symbols that represent success
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Pink Flamingos Essay Price has a negative view of United States culture by the satirical tone throughout her essay‚ “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History.” Even in the title of the essay‚ Price demonstrates the ironic life of the “plastic” yet “natural” history of plastic pink flamingos. In her essay‚ she mocks the history of the evolving plastic pink flamingos and how America tends to be consumed with the latest fad. Price mentions that the flamingos are most known in Florida. However
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Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History‚” by Jennifer Price the adoration of pink flamingos in the fifties is shown through the amount of flamingo souvenirs purchased and the commensurate claim to boldness. Price in many ways demonstrates her pessimistic feeling toward our culture and the trends we undergo. Much figurative language is used such as “flocking” and “splashed.” Not only are those very particular words to choose they are also mocking words. Throughout “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural
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It’s My Party: The Birthday Party Sequence in Pink Flamingos A film about criminality and unconventionality‚ John Walter’s Pink Flamingoes is a dark comedy independent film. The protagonist‚ Divine‚ is a 300-pound drag woman. She lives with her eccentric family and competes to be “the filthiest person alive” with a corrupt couple. In the birthday party sequence‚ Walter expresses his unique style. He does this by incorporating bizarre situations that would never make it into a Hollywood film and
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In “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History.” author Jennifer Price explains that the lifeless bird symbolizes Americans are lead on by the media and will purchase just about anything to prove their wealthiness. In Price’s view the United States is consumed with flashy displays of wealth. Americans will partake in anything that is bold or bright. In the first half of the essay‚ the author discusses the fact that the new popular item on the market is a plastic flamingo‚ which represents
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Jennifer Price’s essay entitled “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”‚ she uses rhetoric devices to convey her opinions of the emptiness of American culture. Price interprets the pink flamingos as a symbol of affluent American culture during the 1950’s. Price’s comparison of pink flamingos to American culture is demonstrated through the use of tone‚ satire‚ irony‚ comparison‚ and diction. Price varies her writing style as she varies the usage of rhetorical devices in this essay. She blatantly
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STUDENT SAMPLE ESSAYS (Price essay / pink flamingo) Sample #1 In her essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History‚” Jennifer Price examines the strange popularity of the popular lawn accessory of the 1950s. In discussing the history of flamingos and the color pink‚ Price criticizes Americans and American culture for its frivolity and ignorance. Price begins the passage by describing the relevance of flamingos pre-50s. She begins this paragraph with a slightly critical tone
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perspective on the United States. In her essay‚ “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”‚ Price compares such a minuscule object as a flamingo‚ with the vast widespread culture of the American society; clearly depicting how American culture was highly based off of the desire to be bold and in vogue with the rest of society. The flamingo lawn ornament created a spark to epidemic of materialistic viewpoints based off of bright‚ flashy‚ pink colors. The new pink trend that was engulfing the nation
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Tessa Fung #9521 Mr.Valassidis AP Language and Composition‚ Period 4 6 January 2015 “The Pink Plastic Flamingo” I. Introduction A. In a recent essay‚ “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”‚ by Jennifer Price‚ she discusses her view on American culture B. In support of her assertion‚ she criticizes Americans and American culture for its frivolity and ignorance and argues American culture is based on materialism to satisfy the need. C. Jennifer Price points out the flaws in American culture
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introduced plastic‚ hot pink flamingo was not only a yard ornament but also a symbol of a progressive and forward-thinking generation of Americans. In “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” Jennifer Price uses the bold symbol of the flamingo to reveal her view of United States culture. The beginning lines of the essay provide a vivid backdrop to Price’s argument. The image of a “pink flamingo [splashing] into the fifties market” conveys the boldness with which the flamingo was introduced. It did
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