1. Metaphors
Throughout the novel Woodson uses vivid imagery to tell the story. At the beginning of the school year, Frannie is assigned an Emily Dickinson poem during her English class, one of the lines being "Hope is the thing with feathers." and she does not understand it. It is restated at the end of the book, where Frannie thinks to herself, "Each moment is a thing with feathers.’’ (p. 118). The metaphorical meaning behind it is how she becomes more optimistic as the story progresses, as she can finally grasp what hope is. Another example of analogies within Feathers is how characters are often referring to the black and white sides of the highway. Even though segregation has been abolished, races are still seperating themselves. Except
Throughout the novel Woodson uses vivid imagery to tell the story. At the beginning of the school year, Frannie is assigned an Emily Dickinson poem during her English class, one of the lines being "Hope is the thing with feathers." and she does not understand it. It is restated at the end of the book, where Frannie thinks to herself, "Each moment is a thing with feathers.’’ (p. 118). The metaphorical meaning behind it is how she becomes more optimistic as the story progresses, as she can finally grasp what hope is. Another example of analogies within Feathers is how characters are often referring to the black and white sides of the highway. Even though segregation has been abolished, races are still seperating themselves. Except