Rhetorical Analysis On Flamingos

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A sentence that includes both “Americans” and “flamingos”, isn’t very common, especially since flamingos are extinct in the states. But Price is an exception. She managed to compose a complete essay that incorporated both subjects. She illustrates her interpretation of the U.S. culture through the color pink and flamingos, pink flamingos.
She starts off the essay by setting up the scene of the 1910’s and 1920’s, at first without expressing much opinion. She later becomes bold when she states that “this was a little ironic, since Americans had haunted flamingos to extinction…”(13- 14) when referring to the vast use of fake flamingos in backyards. Without declaring it directly, she exhibits the hypocrisy of American culture. She doesn’t elaborate much on the killing of flamingos but she names all the ways American society exploited the pink flamingo, using significant and notable locations like Las Vegas and multiple hotels. The cant talk of the Americans had led them to create a faux flamingo surplus, ironically, an animal that they had killed several decades before. …show more content…

Americans began to translated the impact of the flamingo by painting their “washing machines, cars, kitchen counters… in passion pink, sunset pink, and bermuda pink.” (41-43). Price mockingly implies that Americans will follow a sheep mentality just for the sole purpose of economic benefits. The people of the U.S. aren’t creative enough to come up with their own ideas to sell to the public. Instead they’ll milk every cent of a certain fad until it eventually dies or they find a new one. Americans are only followers, not leaders in Price’s

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