Synthesis

Synthesis paper In my paper I wish to synthesize the works that we have covered in class by showing how they work together to show us the special elements found in every good story. All of the works that we have covered this year work together in many different ways. They also all share many elements of story such as conflict, themes, characters and development, setting, and plot. These elements differ in many ways such as themes being a very broad part of story and plot is a vast element. For this particular paper I will be going over how the themes, characters and development, and conflict all tie in together. For my first paragraph I am going to explain how common themes are portrayed between all of the books that we have read this year. …show more content…
The best way that love is depicted in any of these books is between Hermia and Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream when they went to the extent of escaping in the woods to be with each other. In the song Same Drugs by Chance the Rapper he expresses the unending love that he has for his daughter and his lover by making and singing this song about them. Love is also shown through Hazel and Fiver, who are siblings still express love by standing up for each other and trusting one another in tough places. Fear is the last major theme illustrated throughout all of these works. Whenever Fiver had got a sense of something very bad going to happen to the warren he tried to get a group together and he told his friends that they must leave or they will lose their home (Adams 14). While Odysseus is on his voyage home and getting through all of the obstacles that are being thrown his way he fears that he might never return home to Ithaca. Themes such as love, fear, and anger contrast with each other to add emphasis to the story to entice the reader and keep them …show more content…
In the movie O Brother Where Art Thou the main character also goes on a journey like Odysseus but he escapes from jail with two of his friends so that he can get back to his wife so she does not marry a certain guy. A major way that certain characters develop in story is by becoming a leader. Telemachus portrays this very well because he went from being scared of the suitors to standing up to them and taking on the role of his father while he was gone. Hazel also learned how to become a leader in the group of bunnies that left the warren because he was guiding them on the trip and stood up to Bigwig for the smaller bunnies that could not cross the river. Characters and character development are key elements to story because they allow us to relate to the characters and it brings us closer to the character as they