Feathers
In class, Frannie is assigned a poem by Emily Dickinson in which hope is described as a "thing with feathers." At first, Frannie is a bit stumped by all this symbolic language: So maybe the seventi...
The Highway
Throughout Feathers, characters constantly refer to how they live on "this" side of the highway, and how there's an "other" side of the highway where they never go. It is clear that the town in whi...
Sign Language
Not all the characters in Feathers communicate out lout—and because Sean, Frannie's older brother, is deaf, she's grown up with sign language as one of her primary methods of communication. She t...