She laughs at the “new” American culture of first trying to kill them and now trying to make them a symbol. This displays the disrespect of the real value of the bird making our society seem shallow. The use of lists allows the reader to actually imagine the obsession of Americans with pink. When price lists the load of colors in her essay creating a huge imagination, makes the reader believe that there are too many bright colors in the plastic industries during the 1950’s. As well as listing the very bright shades of
This piece of literature is shown to be satirical from the title, and first few sentences. “The Plastic Flamingo: A Natural History” is the title of the excerpt and shows the sarcasm of Price. The comment on the “natural history” makes us think that the bird was originally made, although it was not, as it is referenced later in the excerpt that the bird became popular in other places around the world. Within the statement, “…It staked two major claims to boldness. First, it was a flamingo.”, the writer showcases more sarcasm and irony, and that is what the tone of the excerpt seems to be.
Pink and Plastic In Jennifer Price’s essay entitled “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, she uses rhetoric to convey her opinions of the emptiness of American culture. Price made it apparent through her usage of tone, satire, irony, juxtaposition, and diction. In her essay, Price varies her writing style as she varies the usage of rhetorical devices in this essay. She blatantly uses irony when she mentions that it is “…a little ironic, since Americans had hunted flamingos to extinction…” (Lines 13-14). Price mentions this historical fact to criticize that Americans are using the image of a bird that they had themselves once massacred with no serious thought behind it.
Her harsh diction is grabbing the audience’s attention and is also trying to get the audience to feel a particular way. Samuels wants the audience to feel the outrage that she does. Samuels even talk about another celebrity who was commenting on the topic of race. When discussing Tom Cruise and his adopted son, the author says “Nice sentiment” when she is talking about how he handles race. This statement is clearly sarcastic.
Along with the use of comedy as a means of critique, Fey also incorporates humor as a tool to downplay the serious aspect of her topic and as a way of keeping the attention of her audience. Fey incorporates humor throughout her entire narrative in order to critique the patriarchal society that she finds herself surrounded by. Fey’s use of humor is made up of sarcasm and does a good job at making her harder to refute. “The only person I can think of who has escaped the ‘crazy’ moniker is Betty White, which, obviously, is because people still want to have sex with her” (Fey p.3). Fey makes choses to talk about the way women are treated in the entertainment industry with a joke on Betty White, which targets both sexism and ageism, which Fey repeatedly addresses, but with a softer approach through the use of humor.
The antonym phrase “beauty versus the beast” is used to create illusion and make reference to the story, while creating humour and mocking Goody simultaneously. The writer uses the verb phrase “broke down” to suggest Jade Goody is unstable and unsteady. The adjective ‘controversial’ is used to describe the Big Brother house and the noun neologism ‘bitch’ is used in her quotation. These both represent Goody in negative ways and could imply that her social background and upbringing has made her into an inept person. The slang noun ‘malarkey’ is also used in Goddy’s quotation.
In Jennifer Price’s essay entitled “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History,” she discusses the history of the flamingo, and its trendy color, pink. Price explains how the United States culture is selfish, and criticize Americans for their lack of acknowledgement to elegance. As Price makes her argument she appeals to many literary devices throughout her essay. Beginning with the title, and throughout the first two paragraphs Price appeal to irony. As the reader(s) examines the title, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History,” instantly the statement is considered impossible considering the fact for something to be “natural” it can not be made or caused by humankind.
The cartoonist uses humor and hyperbole to show just how bad period pains can get and sell their product. The old Midol ad uses a cautionary tone to sell their product by warning the women that their period pains could be the reason for the end of their relationship. The audience for both ads is women old enough to have their periods and with a high enough income to spend on un-necessary drugs. Text one’s purpose is to sell Midol by appealing to the audience and showing an understanding of the pain the women face, while text two has the purpose of selling Midol by pressuring women into buying the product by exposing them to an exaggerated situation if they don’t. The modern day ad shows a picture of the box of Midol above writing that says, “for you superhero-sized pain.” Underneath this writing is a women in the foreground drawn in cartoon form, with exaggerated colours and a speech bubble saying “oooo-uhh.” The cartoon seems to be draw by an advanced cartoon artist as lots of detail is included as well as many colours which contrasts the serious message.
Lear, assaulted womanhood and his attitude towards women was revealed in the depth of the curse and what omens he wished upon Goneril. This may be Shakespeare using Lear as a tool to express his own dislike towards women or conversely, show how devastating it is for a parent to have an ungrateful child that turns her sadness into joy. Furthermore, through statement from “Never afflict/That scope” spoken by Goneril may be an indirect reference to the elderly and how they may rave on about senile matters that are of no concern to the younger generation as this is what Goneril thinks of Lear when he is this angry ranting on about cursing Goneril. The bulk of this text is very emotional as it focuses on Lear degenerating Goneril as a female. The mood is very dark and gloomy.
Hazel Grace Lancaster, she fascinates me how she looks at herself. In the story she calls herself a grenade, because her lungs suck at being lungs, which she is going to explode and hurt a number of lives so she wants that number of people to be small. Hazel also loves a fictional book “An Imperial Affliction”, in the point of view of a girl name Anna but the book ends in mid-sentence. She has tried to contact the author Peter Van Houten, because she is curious of what happen to the rest of the characters in the story. In this movie there are a lot of quotes which I love, but when Augustus said with an unlit cigarette hanging from his lips, “It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.” Augustus shows that when his health is surely not the best, he associates the unlit cigarette with taking control over his health, which often feels out of his control.