Novel Synthesis

Your assignment today is to write a synthesis piece that combines your novel and a secondary text. You need to find a common idea between the two and discuss how EACH piece of text reflects that issue. You only need to give direct quotes from the 2nd text, but you must make specific references to your novel. Your opening sentences will outline the connection that you are focusing on.


As an individual you can create your own destiny on different paths you take.In "Slumdog millionaire" and "The road not Taken" both are great stories that are well connected to making choices and destiny. In fact, there is no such thing as destiny and life is all about the choices one makes. In the poem, "the road not taken" by Robert frost, demonstrates this in many ways. For example, the speaker has a tough time trying to choose which path to follow. "I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference". The speaker is trying to say that he wants to live a life that not many people like to take. As many people don't like to take risks and chances in their life time and not want to leave their comfort zone, As for the speaker he is totally the opposite of them. No matter what path this guy takes, every path has obstacles and pitfalls you have to overcome in order to get through that.

In the novel "Slumdog Millionaire" by Vikas Swarup, there's a boy named Ram Mohammad Thomas who has a rough neighborhood back when he was a child. He went through many obstacles and pitfalls throughout his childhood. With one path he accomplished, leads to another crazy path. Most of these obstacles he has faced, gave him free choice for example shooting a guy on the train and also killing his neighbor by accident. Also with Ram he has used a double sided coin with heads that will determine his fate in his life. At the end of all that, Ram's life has been all about free choice.