Analysis Of 'The Seventh Man' By Haruki Murakami

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.

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 story “The Seventh Man” a young boy loses a friend referred to only as “K” in an accident where he gets sucked in in a tidal wave. When this event happened in the book the man had a small chance to save K, so it is debated whether or not he should feel guilty for not saving K. The Seventh Man should not feel guilty for the loss of his friend K and he should not be held responsible for it. Due to basic fight or flight responses, the seventh man could have died along with K and the fact that nobody but the seventh man saw the wave coming. For those reasons the seventh man should not be at fault for the death of K.

In the story “The Seventh Man”, While in the eye of the storm, K. and the ‘7th Man” take a walk down to the beach, K. finds himself interested in some items that washed up on the shore, and the “7th Man” was just enjoying the breeze. Moments later the “7th Man” hears this loud, rumbling noise and sprints back toward inland, he then yells at K., he didn't hear him. Just as K. heard the “7th Man”, a huge wave comes up and takes him away. Long story short the “7th Man” moves away from his hometown, and moves away to Nagano Province to escape his fears. After 40 years he builds his courage to return to his hometown to realize that his fear is no longer there. So, yes, he should forgive himself for failing to save K., the whole thing happened so fast, The “7th Man” didn’t have time to go back and save K.. There are some things in life

“ ‘It just barely missed me, but in my place it swallowed everything that mattered most to me and swept it off to another world. It took years to find it again and to recover from the experience-precious years that can never be replaced.’ ”(Murakami 133) In the story, “The Seventh Man”, the narrator feels prodigious amounts of guilt for the loss of his friend K.. As a result, he spends his entire life remorsing about the loss of K., rather than living. The Seventh Man did not live… he existed. He existed for countless years, and did not learn to move on and live till many years later. What had happened was not his fault.

“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.

The narrator of “The Seventh Man,” by Haruki Murakami, struggles with the guilt of not being able to save his best friend from a horrendous wave for most of his life. His sleep is ridden with nightmares, and he chooses to never find love, so his future partner wouldn’t have to deal the constant burden of the Seventh Man’s fears. Although the Seventh Man feels strongly at fault for the death of his best friend, K, he should not blame himself for the tragic events that occured, because there was no way to prevent what happened.

“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim” by Vicki Harrison. It is proven that losing your loved ones is painful, shocking, some people might feel guilt, and anger. In the excerpt, “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami the narrator’s best friend, K. died due to a typhoon that struck on September. After K.’s death the Seventh Man suffered in a major trauma and set back. For this reason, the narrator of “The Seventh Man” isn’t blameworthy for K.’.s death and he should forgive himself due to his actions.

Okay, in the first paragraph I said that he should forgive himself and I have a lot of reasons but i have put them down to two good reasons why he should forgive himself. This first reason is you cannot control the weather and how everything happens. The earth is a planet with things that happen for a reason. Such as what happen with the waves taking K with it and he would was never seen again. Waves in oceans and lakes are dangerous. No one can track what will happen with waves unless the wind is very strong and you can see the waves going crazy. I had one of those things happen to me once the wave was too strong but I got out of it. Time will tell when everything happens and nature takes time too. Now on to my next reason why he should not feel bad about it.

“agent regret”(Sherman page 155). This is when you think you are responsable for the death of someone but, there was nothing you could have done still, you feel responsable for that person death. “Just down to the beach”(Murakami page 136). He took his friend to the beach during a typhoon, which led to the death of his friend. He was the one who was responsable for the death of his friend.”Hurry, K! Get out of there”( Murakami page 138). He had yelled to his friend to try and help him but, there was no response.”I was frozen in fear”(Murakami page 138). He new a wave was coming and faild to act to save his friend , which is what got his best friend K

He often had nightmare of his friend K being swept away. What happened to the Seventh man was traumatic. What the Seventh Man went through what is called survivors guilt. Survivor's guilt is a guilt that is a common response following loss or traumatic experiences with significant victimization. This guilt may come when someone, dear to somebody dies and a person feels guilty for the death of that person even if they have not caused the death. We often associate this type of guilt with the battlefield. Soldiers that come home may have this guilt when during a battle some of their buddies died, and they feel like they could've prevented the deaths of their fellow soldiers. But survivor's guilt is not just associated with the battle field. Just like in the Seventh Man’s story. The Seventh Man should forgive himself for the death of K.

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