2. Group C---jgustafson27

In the TedTalk “Why Children of Immigrants Experience Guilt –- and Strategies to cope” by Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Kohli explains that children of immigrants often feel guilt if they don't meet their parents expectations, because they know their parents worked hard or sacrificed a lot to give opportunities, “Many children of immigrants feel chronic sense of guilt for letting their parents down, for not being enough, for being too American, for seeming ungrateful. 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.” (Kohli 0:53).

In the novel The Sun is also a Star, Daniel Bae is the son of two Korean immigrants who had immigrated to the U.S. in search for a better life, and his parents are pushing him and his older brother to become a doctor by going to Harvard or Yale, “Maybe he doesn’t want to be a doctor…Maybe he just changed. But we’re not allowed to change in my household. We’re on track to be doctors, and there’s no getting off,” (Yoon 30). In the novel, Daniel and his older brother Charlie were expected to go to Havard to become doctors, however all that pressure that was pressed onto Charlie had gone onto Daniel because Charlie had dropped out of Harvard. Daniel had an interview with Yale, however, Daniel's true passion is in poetry, but he feels he cannot pursue his dream because of the weight of the pressure his parents put onto his shoulders. 

These two sources connect Daniel and the feeling of guilt that comes from parents pushing their values onto their children, and the child not being able to pursue their own values and passions because of the lingering fear of disappointing their parents. Where in your novel is a character struggling with values that differ from their own? What are the values your characters have? Are those conflicting values holding your character back from something they have a passion for?

For participants: 

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To exceed: Incorporate a quote from a different Ted Talk or a different CommonLit text that has not yet been discussed in your group