In the Ted Talk titled “Why children of immigrants experience guilt--and strategies to cope” by Sahaj Kaur Kohli, she reflects on how she thinks every child of immigrant parents feels guilt in one way or another. She explains how no matter the child or situation, they all have different types of guilt that they have to learn to deal with. Even though they might not know why or how they have this guilty feeling, they still have to learn to find their own way of coping with it. The character Jaime, in the novel The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz, shows how he’s feeling a type of guilt upon his family during these circumstances. “He knew it, the whole village knew it, and there was nothing he could do about it. He never felt so helpless. And guilty.” (Diaz 19). The guilt had come across Jaime so fast to the point he didn’t know what to do, but he had no time to sit around and make a decision to save his and his family's lives. When thinking about children or anybody from a different country (based on character’s in your book), how might it be difficult for a character in your book to cope with the guilt they feel right then and there?
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