In the Ted Talk titled “Why children of immigrants experience guilt – and strategies to cope” by the speaker Sahaj Kaur Kohli talks about when you are being told by friends and family that you need to be/act a certain way or do a profession that they think is important. If you don’t do what they say you would feel a lot of guilt for not doing it even though it doesn’t line up with your wants and needs, “QUOTE”(Pg. #). In the book All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir, The main character Salahudin is struggling with a father who is an alcoholic and a mother who is very sick and in the hospital, “I lean towards him, take a shallow sniff, and almost gag. It’s like he took a bath in Old Crow and then threw on some more aftershave… “Take a shower before she wakes up. She’ll smell it on you”(Tahir 6). The other main character Noor is dealing with wanting a higher education and going to college but feels like she can’t because her uncle, Chachu, wants her to run the store while he goes back to school. She feels guilty if she doesn’t because her uncle saved her from an earthquake and she feels like now she has to pay him back for his deed, “I was six when an earthquake hit my village in Pakistan. Chachu drove for two days from Karachi because the flights to northern Punjab were down… His palms bled. His nails were ripped out. Everyone was dead. But Chachu kept digging. He heard me crying, trapped in a closet. He pulled me out. Got me to a hospital and didn’t leave my side… Noor + College = Never going to happen”(Tahir 17+18).
How does your character deal with the guilt of being an immigrant in the US? How are they trying to adapt to US culture but also trying to adhere to their parents' wants?
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