Character Analysis Of 'The Seventh Man' By Haruki Murakami

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.

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

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.

He felt the guilt long enough, and had to forgive himself. It didn’t only affect himself...it affected his friends and family too. What had happened was not his fault. It was a fluke of luck. Why K. unfortunately died and the Seventh Man did not will remain a mystery. Everything happens for a reason. With that said, the Seventh Man needed to forgive himself. He may have been alive, but he wasn’t living a much different life then K. He was alive, but was not living. Therefore, it was only right that the Seventh Man forgave

“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.

Equality 7-2521 even goes as far as to say, “I understood why the best in me had been my sins and my transgression; and why I had never felt guilt in my sins.” (page 98) He thinks now that not only was his sinning okay, but it was the best part of him. It gave him his individuality . Equality 7-2521 religiously believed that being alone was a bad thing, even to the point that when he was alone he he believed he was sinning. By the end of the book, however he has lost his religion so to speak. He no longer believed that he was sinning; because he no longer worships

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.

“...we often take responsibility in a way that goes beyond what we can reasonably be held responsible for.”(Sherman 154). Philosophers explain survivor guilt using the preceding terms as an internal conflict between two important characters. The foregoing quote from “The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt” defends the claim that the narrator of “The Seventh Man” should forgive himself for his failure to save K.

“Thailand” by Haruki Murakami, a slice of life sort of story, and within, we are introduced to a main character that is easily imaginable and even relatable. She is a career woman named Satsuki, whom, having gone through some recent hardship, decides to take a vacation, essentially to give herself a break from the grind of life and unintentionally to allow herself to find resolve. As a character, we are first introduced to Satsuki on a flight, as she is going to a conference, pertaining to her career as a thyroid specialist, in Bangkok, Thailand. In this first scene, Satsuki, through her own introspection, lets the reader know of the hardships and struggles she deal with in life and more prominently what she has faced as a woman in a

The idea of double consciousness, termed by W.E.B. Du Bois, for African Americans deals with the notion that one’s self has duality in being black and American. It is the attempt to reconcile two cultures that make up the identity of black men and women. One can only see through the eyes of another. A veil exists in this idea, where one has limits in how he or she can see or be seen. This individual is invisible to the onlookers of the veil, and those onlookers may be invisible to the individual. This then alters how one can truly interpret their conscious. This concept is one that has been explored in various themes of literature,

Merriam Webster defines the crooked word of twisted as mentally or emotionally unsound or disturbed, giving synonyms like sick and cruel-minded. Merriam Webster also explains the idea of a hero as a person admired for achievements and noble qualities, and/or one who shows great courage. While agreeing with these denotations, twisted can have several different interpretations based on a person’s perspective. Factors that may change a person’s views on who or what is “twisted” are often his or her ideology, cultural background, religion, social outlook, and other orientations. As witnessed in Our Twisted Hero by Yi Munyol, there are several characters who could fit the twisted or hero role. For example, some could see Han as the hero for putting the thought of combatting Om as monitor initially in the minds of his peers, or the new teacher could be viewed as the hero with his fight to demolish Om’s power in the classroom. While these points are valid, Han or the new teacher do not seem twisted in much or any form; they each had purposes and reasoning for what they felt they had to do to either fit into the school environment or to help the students realize their mistakes with harsh but reflective punishments. On the other hand, Om Sokdae, the class monitor, appears to fit the role of the twisted and hero components best.