Jennifer Price’s Satirical Explanation Of “The Pla

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American culture has come to be a dominant force in world culture, but through the decades, it has experienced some quirkier trends such as the pink flamingo. The infamous pet of lawns across America flew into culture scene in the fifties in Florida. Florida at the time was the center of luxury, wealth, and commerce, for everyone wanted to live or be in Florida. The original flamingo of wealth comes from the Flamingo, the first grand hotel of Miami Beach which came to fame in the 1910s. Forty years later, the pink flamingo would take over the lawns and homes of Americas in a mere year. Jennifer Price talks about the flamingo in a satirical way while using precise word choice and metaphors along with ironic but scientific details and also a repetitive placement of words which are strengthened by distinctive punctuation in her essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” to convey her opinion of the American culture as a commercially dominated business that will adopt any ridiculous trend in order to make a profit. Price’s diction strengthens her argument of a commercially dominated nation by comparing and describing the American public as a flock of birds that fly to any trend that is synonymous with wealth no matter the ridiculousness. Miami was and still is to this day a very popular and trendy vacation destination that Price said Americans “had been flocking to” since the 1930s. Price’s uses of a verb associated normally with the movement of birds rather than using a word like traveled shows how dominated she thinks the public is by cultural trends. Miami, which grew to be a city where the rich and wealthy spend luxurious vacations at, had become the newest spot for the middle-class to gather at on vacation. The middle-class Americans had a desire to be like the rich celebrities that represent American culture, so the public will go to anywhere as long as

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