13. Best Scene (Part 2)As I said, the Challenge wants six best scenes. My fourth choice is from Cinder: there is a poignant moment when Cinder returns home one night to find her best friend has been destroyed--the android had a dysfunctional personality chip which gave her an actual personality and passion for celebrity tabloids. Cinder walks into her room and discovers the pieces of the robot on her bed, the only thing she takes from the pile is the chip--the only important part of her friend.
In Rae Carson's The Girl of Fire and Thorns there is a scene when Elisa washes her laundry and discovers how much physically changed she is after her trek across the desert. She holds up a nightgown and measures it against herself; at the beginning of her journey she was fat, but now she is merely chubby and, now she is used to hard work, unwilling to go back to the girl that life happened to. Her transformation was most clear at that moment--not that she wasn't fat anymore, but that she was an agent in her own future and willing to work at changing her own life.
One scene that stands out to me, not for its worthiness to the plot or any literary reason, but for the scenery and what I imagine to be vivid color is in Anne Osterlund's Exile. Aurelia is captured, but meets her mother. The former queen lives in a room decorated entirely in blue--from pale robin's egg and sky blues to crisp slate blue-grays. The image they create is beautiful and fascinating.
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