The Seventh Man

If you think about it the man in the story should forgive himself because he tryed to his best ability to save him. If anything it was K’s fault because he couldn't here the man. He was to focused on something elses then the waves which he should have had an eye on him them whole time. The narrator even told him. He said that once you start to feel any wind to run back home. Sure there was some problems in his plan like the how K couldn't here him and how the wind

Time moves so quickly for people in these cases so they have to think fast, but also what’s the right decision. They don’t have the time to process the information with the scene that is happening at the moment and often people don’t realize if it is the right decision or not until it is too late. In situations like these, everyone feels stress to the point where they have no other option until it is too late when they make their final choice like what happened in “The Seventh Man” about their situation with the wave. “My feet, though, which knew what was about to happen, turned away from my willin exactly the opposite direction. I ran away to the breakwater alone. I guess it was the overwhelming fear that made me do it. It robbed me of my voice, but it got my feet moving well enough. I fled stumbling across the soft sand beach and, arriving there, turned to shout at K” (Murakami 5). This shows how the situation the seventh man was in was happening so quickly that his brain couldn’t process what to do at the moment until when it was too late that he realized he could’ve made a different choice.

The seventh man should not forgive himself for not saving K. My point of view is supported by the consequences and actions of what he has done and, not done and by what he states in his story. For example, he said he had the time to go and save K. This means that he just stood in place as he watched his best friend in danger and get swallowed by the giant wave. Additionally, in his story, The seventh man says he knew and felt that the wave was close and coming. Although he may have been in major shock, he could have forced himself to run to his own childhood best friend to save him from the upcoming death. Then again, others may say that this is not the case

“Don’t waste the life I’d sacrificed my own for on feeling bad about yourself. We might as well have both lost our lives at this rate. Go see the things I never got to see. Do the things I never got to do.  Life is spent in hesitation and fear is no life at all.” is something along the lines of how I think K would have felt about the situation, given the personality described. In “The Seventh Man”, a short story by Haruki Murakami, the seventh man tells a story about a natural disaster he survived: in which his best friend did not. He summarizes this event and reminisces on how he could have saved K; that is followed by a third person point of view describing the effects this survivor’s guilt has had on the seventh man. Despite his failure to save his best friend, should he forgive himself? The answer is a clear, and obvious yes because by never forgiving himself, not only is he hurting himself and allowing K to die in vain, but he also spreads pain to those who love him like friends, family, and acquaintances. I’m sure by that present point in time; K, his parents, K’s parents, and everyone but himself had succumbed to forgiveness. The only one left to move on is the seventh man himself.

Imagine that you and your best friend go down to the beach to check out the damage from a recent storm. While at the beach, you try to call your friend and warn him of an incoming wave. Before your friend hears you, he gets swallowed up by the wave. Would you feel responsible for your friend's death? Although some people might blame the Seventh Man for K’s death, the narrator of the “Seventh Man” should forgive himself for his failure to save K because it is a natural instinct to save yourself first when in danger, The Seventh did not force K to go with him down to the water after the storm, and The Seventh Man tried to warn K of the incoming danger.

(Ch.21, Paragraph 6)” At this point, Krakauer started second guessing the decisions that he had made. He starting thinking about how many people he could’ve helped and possibly saved if he had just gone back. However, there was nothing he could do now. Krakauer holds himself accountable for Andy Harris’ death. Krakauer had thought that he had seen Andy stumble over to the tents, when in reality it had been Adams. Later, he discovered that if Andy hadn’t turned left toward camp and had continued straight down the gully instead, he would have walked to the edge of the mountain. Krakauer had told everyone the night before that Andy was fine but was later full of guilt, he couldn’t understand how he could’ve mistaken him for another

A handful of people will agree that the Seventh Man left K. intentionally and let him die. For example, (evidence). Thus, what killed K. was the “wave like a huge snake with its held wanted him to die” (138). Furthermore, it was impossible for the narrator to save K. because he was “ten yards” away from him. Therefore, if he tried to run up to him and save him both of them could’ve died. In addition, although, the narrator failed on saving K., he was traumatized and had a difficulty moving on with his life. For example, “I was burning with fever, and my mind was clouded… been asleep for three days… vomited several times, and had bouts of delirium… in my dreams, K. would hop out of his capsule in the wave and grab my waist to drag me inside him...I never married… never went to swim in a pool… wouldn’t go near deep rivers or lakes…” (139-141). Others might conclude that the seventh man deserves everything he’s been through. However, this proves that the Seventh Man was miserable and couldn’t live life to the fullest because of the

The narrator of “The Seventh Man” should seek forgiveness in himself. Not only is forgiving yourself an essential thing that keeps our lives going, but in his circumstances, there wasn’t much more to do to help his friend.

Imagine you and your friend were in a life or death situation and you survived. However, your friend did not. Would you feel guilty about your friend’s death, or would you be able to forgive yourself? In the story “The seventh man” the narrator and his friend K were in a dangerous situation. The narrator survived but his friend got swallowed by a wave. The narrator felt bad that he did not save K. He should forgive himself because it wasn’t his fault. They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Should the narrator of “The Seventh Man’ forgive himself for his failure of saving K?

the narrator it was not at all his fault that K had died. He should have been able to forgive himself. A great story to source is “The Moral Logic of Survivor's Guilt.”The story explains what survivor guilt is. “The classic scenario is not so much one of good luck (as in survivors guilt), but of bad luck, typically having to do with accidents where again, there is little or no culpability for the harms caused”(Sherman 154). In the narrator of “The seventh man” case K had tragically died in a typhoon. He felt that it was his fault that K had been swallowed when in reality, if he had tried to save K he would have died himself. There was no way he could have saved K. The narrator should be able to forgive himself for not running after K. It was an accident, peer bad timing though he feels as if it was his fault. Even though the narrator of the story had watched K die, he should have been able to forgive himself because of the simple fact that it was not his

“In war, standing here rather than there can save your life but cost a buddy his. It’s flukish luck, but you feel responsible.” (Sherman 153). In “The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt,” Nancy Sherman uses this quote to explain the basis of survivor guilt in war. In “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami, the narrator failed to save his closest friend from a wave. As Sherman said in her quote, people often feel guilty when they survive a situation that others didn’t. The narrator’s situation in “The Seventh Man” is a perfect example of this. Despite his failure to save K., the narrator should still forgive himself.

There are many situations in which people feel like they’re at fault for the death of a loved one, or a good friend. Many of these cases, to this day, involve soldiers who have seen the terrors and tragedies of war, and have watched their companions get killed in the line of fire, while they survived. In the story, “The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt,” the author, Nancy Sherman, talks about what survivor guilt is, and why some people suffer from it. “The guilt begins an endless loop of counterfactuals- thoughts that you could have or should have done otherwise, though in fact, you did nothing wrong.” (Sherman, 153) Sherman’s statement relates back to “The Seventh Man,” and how the narrator feels guilty for not saving K. even though there was nothing that could’ve been done to help. The Seventh Man has thoughts about what he could have done, and different things he could have said to save K. but in the end, he feels guilty for nothing.

“The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami is a passage where a man tells a story of how his friend, K., lost his life in a hurricane, causing the narrator to have to face his fear of water later in his life. The Seventh Man gave context of how his friend had gotten swept up into a wave in the eye of a hurricane. When K. didn’t hear the man calling out to him, the man blamed himself for his friends death. After his dreadful experience, the Seventh man was constantly followed by the thought of K., how he died, and how he could have stopped it. The Sevenths Man's feelings could be considered to be survivors guilt. The fact that The Seventh Man tried to save his friend but couldn’t shows why he should forgive himself for K,’s death.

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