The Seventh Man

The seventh man should forgive himself for his failure to save K.’s life. In the novel “the seventh man”, the seventh man is a child during a typhoon. He and his best friend ,K., go down to the water during the eye of the storm to investigate the shoreline. When they reached the beach, there were lots of unfamiliar and fascinating items washed up on the shore. The boys were so focused on the treasures that, consequently, they did not notice the waves creeping up the shore. Our narrator, the seventh man, noticed a huge wave moving quickly and maliciously in from the horizon. As he runs to shelter behind the breakwall, he yells for K. to run away from the water. However, K. is still entranced by the debris at the shoreline and doesn’t hear him. The seventh man knows that he should go back for K., but he is transfixed by the horror of it all and only springs into action to run behind the breakwall. K. finally realizes what is going on and tries to run away; but, it is too late. K. is sucked away from the beach in a thunderous torrent of water. In the next wave that attacks the shoreline, the seventh man sees K.’s body; grinning horrendously and wickedly at him. He is traumatized and feels responsible about K.’s death until the day he finally learns to forgive himself. He spends many long years being tortured by his guilt at K.’s death. He needed to let go of the pain that he carried for all those long and terrible years. Maybe he could have saved K., maybe he couldn’t have; but

Why should the narrator of “The Seventh Man,” should forgive himself for the lost life of K? Others may say it should be his responsibility to save K because of his impediment of some sort, he was younger and that he had the responsibility of K down by the beach because he was the one who was taking him down there. But in reality he should forgive himself, this occurrence of a death was not his fault but the Tsunami that came to their hometown and is harming him from moving on and trying to have a good life after the time of death, to live for K.

The improbable idea of guilt rushes through everyone at one time or another. We often find ourselves forgiving people or placing blame on ourselves for inadequate reasons. In the story The Seventh Man by Haruki Murakami, the Seventh Man’s best friend K is swept away by a tsunami. For years, The Seventh Man refuses to forgive himself for the incident. At a young age, he inhabits the quality to run from fear. Moving to a new town and changing his life, the Seventh Man doesn’t learn to forgive himself till 40 years later when seeing K’s paintings. He returns home and becomes at peace with his loss. At the time of the accident, The Seventh Man was dealing with countless emotions in a brief time period, furthermore it is irrational for him to have been able to save K. The Seventh Man should forgive himself for his failed efforts to save his childhood friend.

but he was not listening. K. was too caught up in looking at something that he blocked out the rest of the world. The seventh man continued yelling to K. but still could not get K.'s attention. K. is the one who is at fault in this situation he is the one who did not pay attention. The seventh man tried his hardest to get K. to listen to him. But he wouldn't

The narrator for the seventh man should forgive himself for not being able to save K because he did everything he could do to try to save him but he would not listen. In the story the seventh man a huge typhoon strikes the beach with a big boom while the narrator and his friend K were investigating the previous damage from the past wind and rain. The narrator heard the big booms and tried to warn his friend K but he just couldn't K was too interested in whatever he was looking at that he did not hear the yelling or the loud booms.

    In “The Seventh Man” the narrator loses a friend that he felt he could have saved. The man and his friend K were down by the ocean while they were in the eye of a huge storm. K was looking at stuff thrown on the beach by the storm, the man was watching for big waves and high winds. The man soon felt the wind start to kick up and saw a big wave getting closer to the shore. He yelled for K, but K wasn’t listening he was almost in his own world. The man started to run, but stopped and yelled for K again this time K heard him and started running but it was too late the wave crashed over K onto the shore. The wave took K out into the cold ocean water. They never found K’s body after that. The man couldn’t forgive himself for what happened to K and liced his life in fear of losing or hurting people.

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.

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

The seventh man struggled his whole life with irrational survivor guilt. The definition of survivor guilt is “one feels guilty despite the fact they did nothing wrong”. The seventh man did not make k follow him and he can not control the wave. The seventh man said that “i know the truth i know that i could have saved k”. How could he have saved him it was a typhoon and also K was never mad at him.

The Seventh Man was unsuccessful in saving his childhood friend, K. In spite of his lack of success, he should not have to live with

    Primarily, K’s personality is described as kind, shy, yet artistic. K had such a kind personality, I feel that he would have wanted the seventh man to forgive himself, and live a long/happy life. Such kindness should have been considered when the seventh man thought of the event.

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

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

The seventh man should forgive himself because if K was alive he wouldn't want the seventh man to be mad and hate himself. K would want the Seventh Man to forgive himself for his mistake. The Seventh Man did yell for K to move but K did not hear him and as a result he was eaten by a wave. Perhaps the seventh man should have tried to grab K, but he was really far out at the beach and he was probably worried that he would end up getting eaten by the wave just like K was another reason the Seventh Man should forgive himself is because he didn't create the wave to get K.

The Seventh Man always felt as if he could have saved K. K.´s parents never blamed the Seventh Man for K´s death. K´s parents always knew that the Seventh man though of K as a little brother. He would always love and protect K. They knew that with all of his love and protection over K that he would not have done anything towards K that could have made this tragic event happen. K´s parents knew that the death of K was very hard for the Seventh Man as well.