Haruki Murakami's The Seventh Man

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.

Furthermore, after all of these years this man should finally forgive himself for his failure to save his friend. This claim could be supported by many sections of this short story. However, the piece chosen here helps aid this declaration that the narrator of “The Seventh Man” having the right to forgive himself for his failure to save K. This section will show how it originally was not his fault, but K’s wrong decisions, “K. saw me walking down the road and came outside. ‘Where

When people put themselves in poor situations it's not always intentional, you can’t stop anyone from making bad choices it’s in human nature. In the text, The Seventh Man, it says, “It just barely missed me, but in my place it swallowed everything that mattered most to me and swept me off to

Unfortunately, nothing Klein could have done would have saved them. Her father was suddenly sent away on a train, and Klein and her mother watched him depart for his death from a cold platform. His advice to his daughter proved instrumental in her survival later on. hat ever you are thinking now t is cowardly. Promise me ou will never do it. (p 32) He begged his daughter to never give up, to never take her own life, and Klein relied on that plea for many years after her father death. Her mother was taken from her as well. Her last words, e strong! (p 92) echoed through Klein mind and stayed with her throughout her struggles against the horrific conditions she would soon find herself in.

Guilt can change people in many different and extreme ways, which makes sense, but on the other hand doesn’t if you never did anything wrong. Guilt takes a huge toll on the narrator of The Seventh Man, to the point that he has to give up many things he loves. “I had always enjoyed swimming, but after that day I never even went in a swimming pool. I wouldn't go near deep rivers or lakes. I avoided boats and wouldn't take a plane to go abroad (Murakami 141).” It seems strange for the narrator to act this way when he didn't do anything, there wasn't anything he could’ve done differently so that K would be alive. That's why he should forgive himself so that way he wouldn't have had to give up the things he loves, his life could have been happier, more fulfilling, and definitely a lot happier.

The speaker also talks of Nell, his ex-wife. Though there were things that annoyed him about her, he still speaks fondly of her. For instance, he remarks, "That's why Nell was good to have ‘round. She could be a pain in the ass, you know, like making me hang those stupid bells, but mostly she knew what to do." This allows the reader to see that the loss of his family has had a deep impact on him. He misses his wife and son and speaks of how families should be together, though his never will be again. This is what provokes him to do what he did next.

The seventh man should be forgiven of his failure of saving K. because that is what K. would have wanted for him. When that incident occurred in the seventh man's life, his life was never the same again. He lived with guilt for the rest of his years. When he was older, he returned to the scene of the incident. He improved some, although he still was not the same.

The narrator of “The Seventh Man” should forgive himself for his failure to save K. because they were only kids when the incident happened. In “The Seventh Man,” K.’s parents as well as his own don’t blame him for the death of K. Even so, he still feels responsible in some way. In “The Moral Logic of Survival Guilt,” the narrator relates to the other men because he feels subjective guilt.

The Seventh Man should not forgive himself for what happened to his friend K. because he could have done more. Not only could the seventh man have done more, but he even basically said that he could have done more. In the story at one point it says, “I told myself to run over to K., grab hold of him, and get out of there”, then at another part

In the beginning of The Watchmen the Comedian is killed. He was member of a team of superheroes. Rorschach, a former costume hero turned vigilante, believes that the Comedian was murdered. When He first confronts his old partner Dan Drieburg (Nite Owl), Rorschach informs Dreiberg that The Comedian was murdered and that he suspects it’s part of a bigger plot to kill other former heroes. Rorschach also pays a visit to former costumed heroes billionaire Adrian Veidt (Ozymandias), Jon Osterman (Dr. Manhattan), and Laurie Juspeczyk (The Silk Spectre), to warn them about the killer as well. None of them take him seriously. Out of all of these heroes one really stands out. Dr. Manhattan is unlike any of the other heroes possessing almost God like

The Seventh man should forgive himself for not saving K. Not everything that happens is a specific person's fault, if he were to try harder to save K he probably would not be sharing his story, he wouldn't be feeling

For example, in the “Seventh Man”, the Seventh man in the group experienced a typhoon at the age of ten which took his best friend K into a watery grave. He than proceeded to blame himself about K’s death for around four decades. However K’s parents never did blame the Seventh man for failing to save their son while he could have.

In The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan there were significant character development in Representative (Congresswoman) Brown and her daughter Hero Brown. For beginning, Representative Brown was a major supporter of pro life which is ironic because her tuner actions with a senator reveals her feminist thoughts such as letting him know not to call her “congresswoman” and also having her own opinion instead of agent with a powerful senator who basically threaten her about her jobs for disagreeing with him. The irony is that pro life symbolizes the idea of taking away a woman's right to her own body and yet one would not expect that from a highly self respected feminist to support such a thing. However, after almost all get male gender have died, and

Page 119: The quote which refers to Alaska’s mom’s death shows how young Alaska had been faced to this situation when she was eight years old. For all this time she has felt the guilt about it because she didn’t get the reflex of calling the emergency number 911 in order to save her mother. Moreover, this event in her life may have a link with her death since she dies on the night that her mother died which is a January 10th and on that night, Alaska was on her way to visit her mom’s grave. This shows that the guilt she felt may have had a consequence on an eventual suicide in order to join her mom on the other side.

Survivors of life and death situations should not feel survivor’s guilt. Survivors of life and death situations should not feel survivor’s guilt is because of recurring nightmares, no human deserves to go through the pain of losing something or someone dearest to them, but to relive that very moment every night in your dreams is unbearable. In the short story, “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami, a young boy loses his best friend in a tsunami and is traumatized by recurring nightmares years upon years after his experience. In the story in paragraph 42 the author says, “It was there in my dreams, except that in my dreams K