Feather Crowns Social Concerns

This Study Guide consists of approximately 14 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Feather Crowns.

Feather Crowns Social Concerns

This Study Guide consists of approximately 14 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Feather Crowns.
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As in her previous fiction, Mason's Feather Crowns is a novel preoccupied with questions of fate, as her main character struggles to make sense of her destiny as the mother of America's first known set of quintuplets. The plot focuses upon quirks of fate, and how Christianna Wheeler, the novel's protagonist, handles hers. While the quintuplets act at first as a catalyst to strengthen the love Christie feels for her farmer husband, James, public reaction soon transforms the normality of their family into a freak show. Mason faces issues of public reaction which can convert a normal, everyday citizen into a celebrity over night.

Christie tries to make sense not only of the town's and nation's often rude and insensitive reactions, but also those of her family, which reflect that of the public. She grapples with the question of how the family unit will resist decomposure...

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