One theme of this story relates to synergy, the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. which line from the story best expresses that theme?

Read the excerpt from "broken chain." alfonso studied the magazine pictures of rock stars for a hairstyle. he liked the way prince looked—and the bass player from los lobos. alfonso thought he would look cool with his hair razored into a v in the back and streaked purple. but he knew his mother wouldn’t go for it. and his father, who was puro mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy.” what details from the passage would best support a paragraph about conflict between characters?

What is the reasoning in this argument?

How does the author of finding flight incorporate ideas from the poem hope is the only thing with feathers into her work