Feathers Analysis

The town in which Feathers takes place is never named, but we get a full description of the place—at least the side of it where Frannie, her family, and her friends live. See, the area is split b...

The entirety of Feathers is told from the perspective of Frannie—a sixth grader at an all-black school in a small town in the 1970s. By limiting the narration to a single character, the novel com...

Young Adult Literature Feathers is definitely a book that's meant for a younger crowd. It's narrated by a sixth grader and comes with all of the dramatic school yard events that kids are used to—...

Despite the fact that she's just a sixth grader, Frannie infuses the narrative in Feathers with lots of insights into the way the world works… even if it's just from her little corner of the univ...

The writing style of Feathers is pretty straightforward—the only time it gets flowery or poetic is when Frannie is quoting from an actual poem that she's reading in class. Otherwise, it's clear a...

The title of Feathers refers to an Emily Dickinson poem that serves as the book's epigraph (see the "Epigraph" section). The whole idea of the poem is that hope is a "thing with feathers" and that...

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,And sings the tune—without the words,And never stops at all - Emily Dickinson Throughout the book, Frannie constantly refers to the Emily...

Feathers isn't the kind of book that ends with a big bang. No one dies, and the last chapter doesn't even contain any big life event, like the arrival of Frannie and Sean's new sibling, or the expl...

The language in Feathers is super simple and easy to follow… which makes sense, because it's told by a sixth-grader for readers who are about the same age. And in a lot of ways, the book touches...

Jesus Has Risen Everything starts out on a perfectly regular school day… regular that is, until a new boy appears in the classroom. The arrival of Jesus Boy (so-called because of his long hair) i...

The setting in Feathers is never explicitly stated in the book, but apparently Woodson saw it as the point between the Brooklyn and Queens borders in New York City. (Source.) Some people write on...

Feathers is about as clean as an animated Disney flick… and we're talking about the ones with animals as their main characters, not princesses. Since the main character is in the sixth grade, abs...

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