In Jennifer Price’s “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, Price shapes the text into her view of the American culture. Through her use of words and context, we see that Price does not have a good deal of respect towards it.
First of all, if a writer reveals how they feel about the United States through talk about pink, plastic flamingos, I’d have to say they don’t think too highly about our culture. Flamingos started growing in popularity ever since Miami Beach’s first grand hotel was named “The Flamingo” in 1910. Now Americans are traveling and returning home with flamingo souvenirs, using plastic flamingos as decoration, naming locations after flamingos, and making bright colored, eye catching plastic flamingos to add a little pizazz to their lawn. Jennifer Price leaves clues throughout her text that portray how she feels about America through the context of a pink flamingo. She uses words in italics such as “flamingo” and “pink” to create a sense of sarcasm towards the average, flamingo loving American. This sarcasm makes America look like a joke. She also adds in the irony of how Americans hunted flamingos into extinction in Florida in the 1950’s and how now we are using flamingos as a symbol of boldness, wealth, and leisure. This is also pointing a finger at the United States, seeing that at one point it was normal for a flamingo to be killed for its meat or feathers, then all of a sudden the bird became popular and now everyone has to have something with a flamingo on it. Jennifer Price seems to view our culture as a bandwagon train with people who are extra, and always want the best of the best. In the essay, she also mentions how popular the color pink was …show more content…
We see that with her chosen use of words, she does not show much respect to America because of their morals and actions and she uses a pink, plastic flamingo to make her
First of all, if a writer reveals how they feel about the United States through talk about pink, plastic flamingos, I’d have to say they don’t think too highly about our culture. Flamingos started growing in popularity ever since Miami Beach’s first grand hotel was named “The Flamingo” in 1910. Now Americans are traveling and returning home with flamingo souvenirs, using plastic flamingos as decoration, naming locations after flamingos, and making bright colored, eye catching plastic flamingos to add a little pizazz to their lawn. Jennifer Price leaves clues throughout her text that portray how she feels about America through the context of a pink flamingo. She uses words in italics such as “flamingo” and “pink” to create a sense of sarcasm towards the average, flamingo loving American. This sarcasm makes America look like a joke. She also adds in the irony of how Americans hunted flamingos into extinction in Florida in the 1950’s and how now we are using flamingos as a symbol of boldness, wealth, and leisure. This is also pointing a finger at the United States, seeing that at one point it was normal for a flamingo to be killed for its meat or feathers, then all of a sudden the bird became popular and now everyone has to have something with a flamingo on it. Jennifer Price seems to view our culture as a bandwagon train with people who are extra, and always want the best of the best. In the essay, she also mentions how popular the color pink was …show more content…
We see that with her chosen use of words, she does not show much respect to America because of their morals and actions and she uses a pink, plastic flamingo to make her