Clear and Emotionally Charged
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 and easy to follow. However, this doesn't mean that there's not a lot of emotion that comes through. The writing style gives readers a blow-by-blow account of everything that goes down, but it also includes the emotions that are part of these moments. For example, we get Frannie's thoughts after a bunch of hearing girls lose interest in Sean:
"What's wrong with his mouth?" the girl said, rolling her eyes at me.
I wanted to like and say, "What's wrong with your ignorant mouth?" but Sean was looking all happy about the girl, so I didn't. "He's deaf. Just deaf. Not stupid." (13.6-7)
Even though the writing style is clear enough to show us exactly how everything goes down, it's also infused with Frannie's anger and sadness when she sees her brother being rejected because of his disability. Through the writing style, we get to see more of what all the characters are experiencing emotionally.