Haruki Murrakami The Seventh Man

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.

“It happened one September afternoon when I was ten years old.” (Murakami, 133). This statement right here should already have you convinced. The narrator states that he was only the young age of ten when the tragic event happened, his friend, K, was taken away by the wave of a typhoon. At that age most children would have no clue what to do in a situation similar to this and that’s when they’re not under pressure. The narrator also states that he called for his friend, “Hurry K! Get

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.

“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.

A. Scotti’s book, “Sudden Sea,” it is important to look at the novel in the context of its intended audience. If the novel was intended for an action hungry audience looking for an easy read with just enough historical context to make it seem real, Scotti has succeeded. If the novel was meant for the few looking to acquire new and meaningful knowledge about the 1938 hurricane, I believe it has not delivered in that regard. My goal in reading the book aligned more with the latter of those two options and so I do not believe the novel to have been worthwhile, but others with different tastes might argue otherwise. One thing that is clear is that this book has not made a lasting contribution to its field. That designation should be reserved for pieces with bigger claims and more evidence to support

Haruki and his friend lived it Province of S. One day there was a typhoon, and when the boys thought it had passed they went down to the beach. Haruki had a bad feeling and thought another wave was going to come, so he yelled for his friend,

In “The seventh man”, Murakami uses the wave as figurative language to characterize the wave as a destructive force. When the mane is describing the entity, he uses fear as an example “that… fear was… the wave (420 Murakami)”. The fear comes from when the wave hit and stole everything precious to him; such as K, then mocked him as it drug K away. The sight of K’s final moments ending right before his eyes caused him to have life long night terrors and haunting his every waking and sleeping moment. This caused him to not make any close relations with the people he meets years to come.

The narrator didn't also want to be killed but I think he should have. In the audio “The Key to Disaster Survival” They talked about how the neighbors saved their lives because they had just moved to the area and were not quite familiar with the area. Their neighbors knocked on their door and told them that a hurricane was coming and that they needed to get out. I feel that the narrator in “The Seventh Man” should have gone and grabbed K. since he was very week and I would not have been ok to watch something like that happen. “The Moral Logic of Survival Guilt” showed guilt. The narrator felt some guilt i’m sure but he should forgive himself “High on that list of emotions is guilt” (Sherman 153). That is why I think that he should just forget about not saving

In the story “ The Seventh Man”, The seventh man fails to save his friend K. K was like his brother and his best friend. “ He tried to run, but now there was no time to run. In the next instant, the wave had swallowed him”(Murakami, 138). This is how K died. It was not the seventh man’s fault, K died because of a natural disaster. What will be debated is whether or not you believe if the seventh man should forgive himself, but that is for you to decide. However, I believe the seventh man should forgive himself of his mistakes. He should forgive himself for not picking the correct way to get K away from the water.

The reason he or she may think this is, because the narrator had a chance to go and rescue K. from the wave but instead chose not to. Referring to lines 30-34, “I told myself to run over to K., grab hold of him, and get out of there… I found myself running the other way…” the seventh man possibly could’ve got himself and K. away from the wave safely. However, my position is stronger because if the seventh man ran back and grabbed K. they probably wouldn’t have made out of their alive. Also, if you were in his position and didn’t know how to face this type of fear, what would you do? Most fearful and situations produce unexpected reactions and you don’t realize what you've done till after you've done

(Sherman, The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt.) The Seventh man feels like it was his job to protect K and he failed, and he could of saved him if it wasn’t for fear. “I knew the truth. I knew I could have saved K. if I had tried.

A wave crashed into the ship, the calm ocean growing darker. The ship rocked and shuddered, moving farther and farther north, until the boat, containing a yet sleeping man, ran ashore. The front of the ship crashed onto the rocky beach, the wood instantly giving in and the ship breaking. The snapping of the wood and the jolting of the waves, finally awoke James.

After the boat’s engine revs up, the raft gets wrenched out of its position. Soon after, I hear a roaring “thunk” and see the shapes of immense mountain peaks in the water. I had tried to think of what caused these large waves, but by the time I caught onto what made these waves, I was already off the raft and on the boat.

Pearl S. Buck wrote the book called The Big Wave in 1948. A big wave killed many people and washed important things away, changing villager’s lives including Jiya, Kino, and Setsu. Most of the people in the village hesitated to go back to the sea but Jiya hoped to go there again. In the end, Jiya and some other people get over the disaster and start their new lives.

The Wave was a group of people that were working together to make things better, but in order to know what to do right, they had to lose and find out what was