Pink Flamingo

Jennifer was very descriptive in her way of writing. She explains how quickly the fad shot across the nation. It had a great effect on people's fashion/design sense and it was widely popular.

Price worded and sculpted the sentences to fit her vision. The way she described the pink flamingos "splashing" into the market of the 1950s really helped you picture how it was such a ripple affect across the antion. The United States was, and still is, greatly affected by itself and the different cultures among intself.

Price uses quotes, examples, dates, and even stories of celebrities being affected by this outbreak of pink birds. With exact locations that you can still go to and still see the affect it all still has on us today, it becomes very influential. Also, it helps people to get the feel of hwo close those days and years actually are to us.

There may have been a subliminal message behind Jennifer's writing. By greatly describing how fast things spread and how much of an impact it had, she may have been very discretely showing us that she thinks we are too influenced by each other. That we rely too much on what others think and/or believe. On the contrary, she may have been describing it so in order to express how she feels about it in a good way. She may think that it's good that one nation has unity in such a way that they influence each other's way of acting towards each other.

All in all, she gave her view of the United States. Even though her essay wasn't directly stating how she felt, you just have to "read between the lines." By using imagery, she paints a picture. By using her style of diction, she describes things in a manner not many could fully understand.