Culture is the arts and manifestation of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively in society. Over many years, Americans have created their own identity, trends, and traditions furthering American culture. Americans display pride, integrity, determination, and gratitude. Although circumstances force us to drift away from our culture degrading what Americans really stand for, we stay true to our values, which keeps American culture great. In a frenzy, the flamingo is considered special all across America on the emphasis of it’s loud, bold pink color. Jennifer Price illustrates the pink flamingo’s claim to boldness. As an appeals to pathos, Price personifies the flamingo as, “flamboyant oasis,” emphasizing the boldness and wealth …show more content…
Price emphasizes the irony of Americans driving flamingos to extension, but now all of a sudden they mean great value to us. In supplication of ethos, Jennifer disputes Americans true respect and love for flamingos because in train stations, “architects employed the playful Art Deco style, replete with bright pinks and flamingo motifs.” Price then follows up with a statement questioning Americans value of trust being that “Americans had hunted flamingos to extinction in Florida in the late 1800s.” The situation of irony is now in place because if you love, respect, and value something so much why drive it to extinction. In many places across the world, the flamingo has always been seen as something of great fortune and value. Price explains the many objects the pink flamingo have a connection in value today. In a detailed appeal to logos, Price insights the reader on how the pink flamingo has always been singled out as” special.” Not only in America is the pink flamingo considered special but all all over the world. Early Christians associate it with the “Red Phoenix,” in ancient Egypt it symbolizes the sun god ra, and “in Mexico and the Caribbean, it remains a major motif in art, dance, and …show more content…
The identity you choose for yourself should be true to American culture. The comparison between “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History.”, “Last Child in the Woods”, and “Days of Obligation” coincided on the emphasis of your own identity bettering American Culture. Jennifer Price details the “sassy pinks,” which took over trains, homes, and more. The use of these colors were forged into the “sheer popularity” of nature with ad spaces. The establishment of these aspects of identity gave the chance for many to “change your name, change your sex, get a divorce, become a movie star,” and create an identity for the advancement of American culture American culture is something held of high value by those who add to and positively advance it. After analyzing “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History.”, “Last Child in the Woods”, and “Days of Obligation” the point of emphasis that connects these articles is the simple fact that you create your own identity and use it as the key to contribute to American
In the poem “The Fox” author Faith Shearin expresses her feelings in a positive to negative way as she observes the small fox over time. The author utilizes rhetorical appeals, as well as tone to relay a message to the readers, by doing this she let s the audience sit and ponder about the way of the world. Throughout the first four stanzas Shearin conveys a positive tone and describes the fox as elegant and free. By doing this the author appeals to ethos in the readers, concluding them to receive joyful interpretations about the fox an the authors opinion; free as they know “he's nobody's pet”
2003 #3 Birds, something we see almost on a daily basis, one here and another one over there, but how many times in our lives will we be able to witness tens of thousands of birds flying over the sky. John James Audubon and Annie Dillard describes their own personal experiences with massive flocks of bird. Both author takes time to help the reader visualize the grandness and coordination of the birds. However with contrasting diction and syntax utilized by the authors, the two articles are able to have different effect on the audience after finished reading them.
In the essay, “The Plastic Flamingo: A Natural History” by Jennifer Price, she examines the massive popularity of the pink plastic flamingo that happened in the 1950’s. The purpose in writing this essay is to show that she believes that America is materialistic/self-centered and sometimes contradictory. She does this by using tone, allusions, and historical evidence throughout her essay. She begins by stating “the pink flamingo…staked two major claims to boldness. First, it was a flamingo” (1-3).
In "The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History," Jennifer Price offers a critical examination of United States culture through the lens of the iconic plastic pink flamingo, which gained immense popularity in the 1950s. Price's skilled craftsmanship in the text reveals her view of American culture as one that is deeply influenced by consumerism, materialism, and the pursuit of superficial trends. Through her use of vivid language, historical references, and satirical tone, Price effectively conveys her critique of the cultural values and priorities prevalent in the United States during the time period. Price's use of vivid language in describing the plastic pink flamingo serves to emphasize the excess and flamboyance of American culture. She
When one thinks of the color pink, our minds are usually drawn to innocence or purity. In Young Goodman Brown, Faith’s pink ribbons are mentioned on various occasions. “Faith thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap” (P. 1, paragraph 2, Young Goodman Brown) This leads us to associate her character with youthfulness and happiness. When Goodman Brown sees
In the story “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, Jennifer Price explains the influence of “plastic pink flamingo phenomenon.” Furthermore, she also delineates the lavish nature of real flamingos. However, Price’s purpose is not to enlighten the readers of either real or artificial flamingos. In fact, Price attempted to introduce her own view of the United States culture. By talking about these plastic flamingos, she gets a point a crossed to the readers.
Here, they are alive. Here, we are timeless, as we all stare at, what my family classified as ‘bluebirds’ whose feathers were layered with red and yellow. At the time, my cousin and aunt were still in the Bronx, watching over the house they and my grandparents lived in at the time. Behind the camera is my father, probably trying to tell us to look in the camera in vain.
One of the aspects of “Wild Geese” that truly struck my fifth-grade self was its use of imagery—I was drawn in particular to the extensive visual imagery in lines 8-13 (“Meanwhile the sun…heading home again”) and awed by the ability of text to evoke images of such clarity. Moreover, in addition to the intrigue of its use of literary devices and the complexity of its recitation, interpreting “Wild Geese” and finding meaning within it was a process that continued well beyond the end of my fifth-grade year, and the connotations of that poem continue to resonate with me. While the entirety of this story is too personal to share herein, “Wild Geese” was a poem that spoke to me on a very personal level. As I sometimes have a tendency to hold myself to unrealistic standards, “Wild Geese” was to me a reminder of the relative insignificance of the trivial matters with which I would preoccupy myself; nature became a symbol of that which existed beyond my narrow fixations and the wild geese a reflection of the inexorable passage of time—in essence, a reminder that “this too shall
Culture is the building block for life. It sets society's standards, it sets our own standards, and everything we know is all because of our culture. Culture is a way of thinking, a way of behaving and learning. We express our opinions based upon our beliefs, and define ourselves by what aspects of our culture we choose to show. Culture's impact on someone's perspective of others and the world is greater than its other influencers because it can change how you interact with people, your ability to change, and your opinions of the world.
On its face, Jennifer Price’s “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” is an enthusiastic essay that sings the praises of the 1950s American plastic flamingo culture. Below this upbeat façade is a well-crafted critique of American culture that has lasted from the 20th century into the new millennium. Price weaves this undertone narrative with her sarcastic diction, historical references, and slight references to American cultural facets. Throughout the essay, Price’s diction remains very upbeat and cheery, almost annoyingly so.
The peacocks become a central point of the narrator’s life. The narrator describes the appearance and attitude of these grand birds in great
In Prices first paragraph she starts with “first it was a flamingo” the sarcasm is pretty obvious, but her sarcastic tone shows that Americans took a simple item such as the flamingo to build an obsession. Price is able to draw attention the the irony when she discusses the hunting and extinction of flamingos but after draws attention how the Americans used the flamingo as a symbol of fortune and became a popular trend, especially in already-flamboyant places of the previous decade like Las Vegas. Price seems to be supporting this trend, but she is actually pointing out the ignorance of Americans. When Price talks about the extinction of flamingos and says “but no matter”, it represents the mentality of Americans during this time because americans didn’t know the history of flamingos in the U.S. and practically didn’t care because they continued using it for their own good. She later states a rhetorical question about why Americans emphasized the words “Pink Flamingo”.
Further, Price directly relates Americans and the flamingo together by using the terms “flocking” and “splashing”. Her shift in tone relates to the feeling of simplistic values being overlooked by the egotistical aspects of modern-day society.
Madison Link Lord Fleenor AP Literature 14 December 2015 Hummingbirds Cannot be Ignored Indecision: the inability to make a resolution effectively (Houghton 690). Beauty: physical attributes that pleases aesthetic senses (Houghton 120-121). Time: the infinite progress of circumstances in the past, present, and future regarded as one entity (Houghton 1418). In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, the humming bird embodies each of these intangible concepts even though its image is only illustrated twice.
Cultural Narrative Culture is recognized as a noun and according to the dictionary it is defined as, “The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation or people.” In other words, culture is the identity of a particular community that is learned by previous generations and is implied by certain institutions. Culture never remains the same because the future generations keep on evolving their beliefs and ways, of which they do things. There is a probability that your culture may differ from mine, and that is what makes our cultures so great! Our culture is what allows us to stand out and differ from one another.