The New American Girl
In the passage from Babbitts and Bohemians: The American 1920s by Elizabeth Stevenson, the flapper is the main focus. During the 1920s, the flapper girl was suddenly there. With them they brought new styles and manners. People either loved the new American girl or loathed them. Either way, the flapper left just as fast as she came. Although she was only here for a short period of time, she had a huge influence on the 20s. Stevenson writes about the flapper girl to show the importance of her. Stevenson informs and entertains the audience of the significance of the flapper girl of the 1920s through juxtaposition, diction, and tone.
The author of the passage, Elizabeth Stevenson, uses juxtaposition to teach the audience …show more content…
It is a juxtaposition to what comes next in the passage. “A year later, in a cover by Thomas H. Webb for the issue of May 13, 1922, the closeness of the boy and the girl, while shill playful, is more self-conscious; he is standing close in an attitude of embrace, ostensibly showing her how to hold a bow and arrow; her dress is beginning to be tomboyish: a skirt and sweater, the sweater belted in leather, an Indian beaded band across her forehead. Her glance backward at the young …show more content…
When she talks about the early 1920s, her tone is very smooth and soft. As the passage talks more about the full-blown flapper, the excitement in her tone rises. While sometimes harsh, the tone describes the full-blown flapper to be important. Using phrases like “carless pose”, “vulgar”, and “wearing ridiculous clothes” Shows that the flapper girls stood out considerably. Their carelessness aided them into showing the significance of those times today. “In a story in the issue of April 3, 1926, there is a girl who is the very type: a girl seen in a careless pose, her back to us, on tiptoes, her dress hem hitting the back of her knees, her waist low and bloused.” (7) The tone of this quote from the passage is very quick, choppy, and straight to the point. She does this to point out the significance of the
In the passage from Babbitts and Bohemians: The American 1920s by Elizabeth Stevenson, the flapper is the main focus. During the 1920s, the flapper girl was suddenly there. With them they brought new styles and manners. People either loved the new American girl or loathed them. Either way, the flapper left just as fast as she came. Although she was only here for a short period of time, she had a huge influence on the 20s. Stevenson writes about the flapper girl to show the importance of her. Stevenson informs and entertains the audience of the significance of the flapper girl of the 1920s through juxtaposition, diction, and tone.
The author of the passage, Elizabeth Stevenson, uses juxtaposition to teach the audience …show more content…
It is a juxtaposition to what comes next in the passage. “A year later, in a cover by Thomas H. Webb for the issue of May 13, 1922, the closeness of the boy and the girl, while shill playful, is more self-conscious; he is standing close in an attitude of embrace, ostensibly showing her how to hold a bow and arrow; her dress is beginning to be tomboyish: a skirt and sweater, the sweater belted in leather, an Indian beaded band across her forehead. Her glance backward at the young …show more content…
When she talks about the early 1920s, her tone is very smooth and soft. As the passage talks more about the full-blown flapper, the excitement in her tone rises. While sometimes harsh, the tone describes the full-blown flapper to be important. Using phrases like “carless pose”, “vulgar”, and “wearing ridiculous clothes” Shows that the flapper girls stood out considerably. Their carelessness aided them into showing the significance of those times today. “In a story in the issue of April 3, 1926, there is a girl who is the very type: a girl seen in a careless pose, her back to us, on tiptoes, her dress hem hitting the back of her knees, her waist low and bloused.” (7) The tone of this quote from the passage is very quick, choppy, and straight to the point. She does this to point out the significance of the