B. the deeper message of a literary work
Synthesis is the opposite of analysis. When you analyze, you break a whole into its parts and examine how the parts relate to one another in order to judge the quality of the whole. When you synthesize, you start with different, unrelated parts, and search out relationships in order to put the parts together to make a new whole. You synthesize automatically when you read, as you relate “new” text information to previous knowledge and create the new “whole” of your knowledge in a field. Synthesis becomes more of a conscious act when you write, since you have to actively select pieces of information that make sense together. As The American Heritage Dictionary states, synthesis means “the combining of separate elements or substances to form a coherent whole.”
The concept of a “coherent whole” is essential to synthesis. When you synthesize in writing, you examine different types of information (ideas, examples, statistics, etc., from different sources) and different themes (perspectives and concepts) from different sources with the purpose of blending them together to help explain one main idea. So you have to look for relationships 1) among the sources’ themes and 2) between these themes and your own ideas in order to blend all of the pieces to make a coherent whole.
The concept of a “coherent whole” is important in terms of language, too. Once you examine content and choose the parts to synthesize, you need to express those parts in your own language in order to create a coherent whole in terms of writing style.
Synthesis is like combining different ingredients to make a stew. If you choose and combine carefully, with the end result (supporting your main idea) in mind, the ingredients will be both separate and well-blended, with all ingredients contributing as they should to the final taste.
View the following video for a basic definition of, and introduction to, the concept of synthesis.
Answer:
1) At the beginning of the story, Grey was really annoyed with his father because he gave him a strict condition which was if he doesn't pass his mathematics exam in school, he will not be allowed to join the basketball team. Greg was fed up with his father's constant lectures, this was the reason why he ran out of the house under the rain to an abandoned building.
2) At the end of the story Greg learned that he father meant well for him by asking him to read hard inorder to pass his exams, he learns to appreciate his father the more and also to valuable their relationship.
3) Greg learned about Lemon Brown's most priced treasure which was an harmonica that his son took with him to war to always remind him of his father. Lemon Brown's son valued the relationship he had with his father.
