Guilt In Across A Hundred Mountains By Reyna Grande

Guilt Can Have A Huge Impact On Your Life

In Across a Hundred Mountains, Reyna Grande explores the huge impact guilt has on people's lives. Holding on to guilt for a long time can be self destructive.

Juana killed her baby sister Anita by an accident, while she was rocking her in her arms. It began to rain outside and the house flooded due to the poorness of their home. Juana felt guilty when Ama pushed her head into Anita grave forcing her to say something. The feeling of waking up without your sister there because of a mistake you made gave Juana many mixed emotions. Guilt had a huge impact on Juana’s life when she scarred her back leaving wounds. When Juana and her family went to visit the river, Apa would give Juana hints by showing her

He felt as though it was his fault because he should have worked harder to get them out of there, and little by little built a better house. Sleep became a stranger to Apa. He stayed up all night thinking about if he could have gotten a better job to fix the house, and avoided Anita’s death. Apa wish he would of swam across the river fast enough to get to Juana and Anita. Guilt made Apa change his life, he went across the border to find a better job to have more money for his family to have a better home. When Apa leaves his family, hoping to return, he leaves them

Jose Alberto, was Ama and Apa son, when he was a baby Don Elias and Matilda took the baby from Ama. Juana wants Jose to live a happy life with his real family. Ama is hurting she needs to see Jose and Apa, and Juana feel like if she sees them she would be happy again and won't feel empty without them not there. Juana is hurting, even though she is trying to help she wishes it wasn’t too late to tell Jose that he was her brother. When, Jose Alberto guessed that Juana was his sister she felt much better instead of telling him herself. Juana felt like she should tell him, but not let the guilt get in the way of her happiness with her