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Analysis of Face by Cecile Pineda Due: 9/29/20 Length: 5 double-spaced pages  Font Size 12 Font New Times Roman   Choose ONE of the topics below.  Your paper should focus on the novel and use at least one quote from the Levinas essay (link below).    Analyze relevant themes, movements, and developments within the work as connected to your chosen topic. Discuss the trajectory of the novel and some of the images, symbols, metaphors it offers to illustrate your argument about the novel.  What is a face?  How do the different elements (loved ones, people in his community) and institutions (hospital) deal with his accident?  How does the accident change his life?  What steps does Helio take to change create a face?  How do you interpret the end of the novel?   **Make sure to quote the text and closely analyze the tone and/or feeling of each scene demonstrating their connection to your claims and arguments.  Also, discuss the writing style – why does Pineda, for instance, use such elaborate and heavy prose?   Paper Topics Choose One: Face and the body Face and race Poverty and the face Abandonment Outsider, Exile, and Scapegoat Rage and In/Justice Self-Reliance and creativity Self-Determination Gender, violence and Masculinity Gender and Voice Fashioning a New Self Trauma and Inspiration (Self) Love Liberated Self   Novel: Face by Cecile Pineda Levinas Essay: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S3ISEzGpZQU-YU7dJTy-vhv1gzly4paa/view?usp=sharing