Adobe illustrator problem: stroke path

I Have problem with adobe illustrator. I have made a path, out of other paths, and now I want to stroke it. But it strokes at each little path. I have a print screen to make it more clear:
The question is: How do I stroke the whole "A"? So i just get a stroke around the "A" and not at each little path?

You could make a compound shape out of it. (see manual for details)
You could group them and then add a stroke and use pathfinder-effect "Add"

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