Zara Character Analysis

Zara is Emira’s best friend. She’s confident and outspoken. Zara is a nurse—a longtime dream of hers—and though she’s always known what she’s wanted to do with her life, she doesn’t judge Emira for being less certain about her future. Zara supports Emira, but she also is honest with her: when Emira is too busy pouting over her own financial woes to be happy for their friend Shaunie for getting a promotion, Zara tells Emira to get over herself. Emira sometimes feels like an outsider in her friend group, since all her friends are further ahead in their careers and have more financial stability than she does. Zara accompanies Emira to the Chamberlains’ house to support her during the interview with Laney Thacker that Alix has arranged for them to talk about the recently-leaked footage of Emira’s altercation with a security guard at Market Depot. While there, Zara overhears Alix ask Tamra if she was right to release the Market Depot footage. She immediately relays this information to Emira and tells Emira that she can no longer work for the Chamberlains. With Zara’s help, Emira successfully secures a reasonable salary with benefits with Beverly, her boss at the Green Party, which allows Emira the financial stability she needs to quit babysitting. She also jumps in front of Laney Thacker’s news crew’s cameras and makes a scene in support of Emira after Emira announces her resignation and humiliates Alix on live TV.