In the Ted Talk sahaj kaur kohli (why children of immigrants experience guilt) is about immigrant children with mental health problems maybe they are experiencing guilt from leaving their families behind. This also talks about strategies to help cope with these mental health problems and come to peace with them.” There’s also this sense of a thriver’s guilt or this guilt of growing, healing, accessing resources and opportunities that maybe our parents didn't have or our family and other parts of the world don't have access to.”(32 sec kohli).
In the book Call me American by Abdi Nor Iftin he has finally made it to America and is having a hard time surviving and making money he survives off his friends and his small jobs. He finds it hard to do daily activities due to discrimination. “I didn't want the life my parents wanted for me. I wasn't going to spend all my life in a mosque.”(Iftin pg 102).
Based on your novel does your character want to have a different future than their parents want them to have?
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