Appearances lead to a lot of good-for-nothin' trouble in Daughter of Smoke and Bone. Different appearances seem to be one of the driving factors behind the chimaera-seraphim war, for example. And they cause prejudice within different types of chimaera. What is with people (or people-like things) and their tendency to discriminate against others based on their appearances? Yikes. This book seems to have some anti-war social commentary in it, we think. Oh, and then there's all that appearance-driven lust in Daughter of Smoke and Bone, and that trading of bodies that can happen when some chimaera are reincarnated. So we were wondering: beauty may only be skin deep, but what if you're wearing someone else's skin?
Questions About Appearances
- Karou is able to alter her appearance with a wish. Why does she choose to have tattoos and blue hair, and what do these choices say about her?
- To Karou and Zuzana, what is the definition of ideal beauty? Are any of this book's characters beautiful in a different way?
- Why do creature-aspect chimaera want to appear human?