Amir Hassan Ap English 3/20/11 Amir Hassan Ap English 3/20/11 Pink Flamingos Jennifer Price is widely focused around the pink flamingo and American society with the bird. See how flamingos were native to Florida but were extinct in the late 1800’s by early Americans the flamingo was never forgotten and is bigger than ever. “Claims to boldness”; also Jennifer says had made this bird synonymous with wealth around the “vacationing Americans.” This colorful bird has given Americans a style of art as well. With the playful art deco style, and replete. Now is this Author really talking about “pink flamingos” or is she really saying something more?
She describes how the bird gained extra appeal from the “flamboyant oasis of instant riches” that is Las Vegas, speeding the sprouting up of the flamingo across the whole country. By juxtapositioning the three images, Price creates the connotation that once everyone acquired the bold bird, it became less special. Next, the author attacks the birds “commensurate claim to boldness” through its pink color. She quotes Tom Wolfe’s exotic description of the “new electrochemical pastels of the Florida littoral”, calling the
She mocks the Americans for creating values based off superficial ideas. Throughout her essay, Price’s sarcastic tone is used to show the mockery towards the Americans for overemphasizing their values based off shallow thoughts Price previously argued that the pink flamingoes were popular because they were pink. But “why, after all, call the birds “pink flamingos”--- as if they could be green or blue?” Price looks down on the Americans because they popularized the flamingo just because it’s pink when it couldn’t possibly be any other color. At the end of her essay, Price brings in a few allusions from other cultures. The flamingo in the United States was like the “Early Christians associated with red phoenix and for the Ancient Egyptians symbolized the sun god Ra.” Her use of the metaphor to compare the flamingo to the red phoenix of the Christians and sun god Ra of the ancient Egyptians with the addition of her sarcastic tone derides the Americans for stressing the importance of the flamingo even though it’s not essential to anything.
Although Price’s essay is fleeting, its audience will surely grasp a good idea of how she views American culture. Right off the bat Price recognizes the intrepid aspects of hotels, businesses, and their clientele’s choice to promote the flamingo as a sign of “…leisure and extravagance.” (Price, line 19) The bird represented pizzazz, and was bright pink. Further in she also ties the ripple effect from the great depression. Those marketing techniques may have only been so successful, because America had a generation emerging from the great depression that grew tired of dim, dysphonic, and depressing colors. A combination of flashy pastels and an expanding middle class eager to invest in new technologies previously reserved for the wealthy shot that generation in to a new culture.
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Pink is about the heart and is seen as a way to read a female’s sexuality or compassion” (Pallingston 98). It was all about pink in the 50s; the popular shade of the 90s was red. “Red is the color that gets notices the most. Red is the symbolic color of love, magic, revolution, martyrdom, hell, death, and fervor. A bright pure red is considered the most passionate color, suggesting the most primal needs” (Pallingston 97).
Using the above quote again one can see that McCain tries to instill his decent personality into the minds of those listening to his speech. By belittling Obama’s views and making the connection with Americans he makes the audience believe he has a sense of trustworthiness and nationalism. McCain also proclaimed, “No problem is more urgent today than America’s dependence on foreign oil.” This was a brilliant way of appealing to America’s need of an alternative source of energy. The rising gasoline prices in America cause everything else that has to be transported to rise, such as food. McCain struck home with the average American citizen’s dependence on oil in their everyday lives.
Pearl is the product of Hester’s sin. “Her mother, in contriving the child’s garb, had allowed the gorgeous tendencies of her imagination their full play; arraying her in a crimson velvet tunic, of a peculiar cut, abundantly embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. So much strength of coloring, which must have given a wan and pallid aspect to cheeks of a fainter bloom, was admirably adapted to Pearl’s beauty, and made her the very brightest little jet of flame that ever danced upon earth” (Hawthorne 69). Pearl is as well called the names “Ruby,” “Coral,” or “red Rose,” and “a little bird of scarlet plumage,” further extending Pearl as a red representation of Hester’s sin. Pearl is the scarlet letter in another form because without Pearl, Hester would have never had to wear the scarlet letter and she wouldn’t have been humiliated and taunted therefore causing her to lead a better life.
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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.