We Hunt the Flame

How are Zafira and Nasir characterized in the first two chapters of We Hunt the Flame? What are their initial similarities and differences?

How does Zafira’s cloak illustrate her relationship with her gender identity? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Zafira states that “Sometimes the most truthful words were merely elaborate lies. And if one was banned from lying, that was all the more reason to learn a new way of stringing words together” (165-66). How does this mentality apply to the characters in We Hunt the Flame? To what effect?