In the book "19 Minutes," by Jodi Picoult, the issues are often pushed away and not talked about. A lot of the characters don't know how to express their feelings, so instead of trying to talk about them, they try to push the feelings away.

In the book, Peter acted like everything was fine. He spent time with his family, he acted like he enjoyed school, and he seemed relatively happy. Later on in the book, we find out that Peter was depressed, suicidal, and shot and killed 10 students in his own school. No one knew he was planning this, no one knew he was depressed or suicidal. He pushed his feeling so far down that he had to resort to this. If someone had taken the time to ask him what was going on, or if he had decided to talk to anyone about how he was feeling, instead of keeping his issues to himself, the outcome of the story might've been different.

In the book, Alex, Josie's mother, tried for a long time to become closer to Josie after years of neglecting her. When she learns that Josie doesn't want to have anything to do with her since Alex neglected her for so long, Alex tries to pretend that she doesn't care. When Josie finally comes around and her and Alex become closer, Alex admits to missing having Josie always be there, and Josie tells her how neglected and forgotten she had felt for all those years. When they both started talking about the issues they had kept inside for so long, they were able to solve those issues and talk to each other more openly, instead of keeping everything to themselves as they had for so long.

In the book, many of the characters keep their feelings to themselves instead of openly talking about them. If Peter hadn't kept everything to himself and if Alex hadn't pretended not to care about Josie, the ending of this story might've been different. This book shows that a lot of the time, people don't know how to express their feelings, so they push them away instead of deciding to be open about what is going on beneath the surface.