Number Seven: A Fictional Narrative

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.

I read a book that is called Counting By 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan and it’s a realistic fiction. it's about a girl named willow she is adopted, she's different from all of the other people in the school maybe because she skipped a grade, and both of her parent’s passed away. She starts from when the police told her the news and then starts from the beginning telling her story and we find out different things about willow like how she likes learning about medical things and how she skipped a grade. But when it comes back to the present she finds that she is going to have to become strong and that there will be ups and downs.

The seclusion endured by the narrator causes a dramatic change in her mental state. Her surroundings are now coming alive within the walls around her. “I didn’t realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman” (736). Initially, the figure witnessed around the walls was merely just the shadow projected from the narrator creeping around the paper. Now this shadow is taking on not just any life form but ironically the form of a woman. Just like the narrator is trapped within the barred windows of the mansion, the woman is trapped within the patterns of the paper. This parallel view is transforming the narrator’s identity within the walls of the paper. However, this obsession begins to heighten. She begins to see the woman through every window in the bedroom. She appears to be creeping not only around the walls but now outside in the garden and along the

The novel Counting by 7s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan, has a copyrighted date of 2013. The conflict that takes place is how will Willow Chance progress without her parents. Following this, she is living in the moment, unknowing what going to occur in the next chapter of her life. The beginning of book starts of with tragedy that affects Willow as she comes home from ice cream. With counselor, Dell Duke, her new friend Mai, and Mai’s brother. The setting takes place, at Willow’s home pulling up to pavement by her house. Where everyone in the car witnesses a police car at the driveway. As Dell Duke talks to the police, there voices are still audible for Willow to understand. Willow had been conscious of that her beloved ones no longer existed in

It is as if the bedroom is a bulwark that works to maintain the observer and the observed in their subsequent positions, upholding the hierarchy of the house. "The spatial

As Celia made the long trek into town, doubt began to surface in her mind—an internal loop of anxious static. The initial signs were subtle—the lack of vehicles on the road, the faded billboards advertising cave tours for outrageously low prices, the silence—all indicating that Seven Devils might not have been the safe haven she hoped for. A glint of silver caught her eye—the moon reflecting off an orange and white roadblock. Covered in a thick coating of grit, it barricaded the gravel road leading to the caves. Celia stopped and gazed past

Many soldiers and people who lost their friends carry the burden of survival guilt. Soldiers and guards willingly fight for their country, and generally come home to their family. On the other hand, sometimes they die. For the people that survive when their friends don’t, some may feel responsible for their friend’s death. These feelings can cost a lifetime because the thought can come back into your memory and scar you.

The seventh room is dark, with red windows. Likewise in this chamber stands an attractive ebony clock. At the point when the clock rings every hour, its sound is so uproarious and distracting that everybody quits talking and stops music. While the clock is not resonating, the rooms are so excellent that they appear to be loaded with dreams. The final chamber was the most feared by everyone, its atmosphere gives goosebumps and throws terror in the hearts of the fearless.

A tumultuous typhoon surges towards you. You are standing still with your best friend and his dog when this occurs. What do you do? Your natural instinct is to run. Therefore, you try to get your friend’s attention and warn him. Unfortunately, he is so mesmerized with the surroundings and is unable to hear you. Suddenly you start to panic as the typhoon gets closer and decide you must run away to survive this ordeal. However, what about your best friend and his dog? Every man for himself? Would you forgive yourself for leaving your best friend behind in order to save yourself? The narrator from “The Seventh Man” experiences this horrific event and lives to tell the story. Surprisingly, the narrator does not forgive himself for almost forty years after the incident. Some readers believe he should forgive himself sooner. On the other hand, others say he does not deserve forgiveness due to leaving his best friend behind. The majority of readers would agree that the man absolutely should forgive himself. Many would argue the reasons for forgiveness are he was young when the event occurred, spent the next forty years blaming himself for his friend’s death, and his friend would not want him to punish himself.

In the paper, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information, George A. Miller points out the correlations between neural processing to recognize previously shown information and the amount of information that can actually be remembered. He presents several experiments done with unidimensional stimuli, where there is only one stimuli, and multidimensional stimuli, where there are more than one. In the first experiments talked about, only one sensory process was tested. For example, Pollack’s experiment tested the auditory sense and the ability to differentiate between pitches. Other experiments were recognized that included the other senses, taste and sight, and all the responses varied around the number six. After around six correct responses,

To this day I still remember the Velveteen Rabbit, Winnie the Pooh, and The Bernstien Bears. There are some books that I remember reading when I was little that I don’t see in libraries or in book stores now. I think that’s because they aren’t as interesting and exciting as others. I think the book I’m reading, Counting By 7’s, is going to be read in the future, because once you read the first page it catches your eye ,and all you’ll want to do is sit down somewhere and finish it. It’s a narrative story because the main character is telling the story.

Drew no longer could stand living with a lob roommate. Drew’s roommate space is very terrible that if he loses an important item he will never find it because of the mess. The closet door is always open and hard to ignore, Drew’s roommate has lots of clean clothes that he don’t even wear. His roommate has dirty shoes on top of the clothes or even on top of the desk. On the TV spot, he has a mountain of dirty clothes and shoes that drew can ignore because when he opens the door people can see all the mess. At the left of the hand of the bed, Drew’s roommate has a trash can where is always full of trash, and most of the trash are going underneath the two beds because they are close to each other. On the right hand, the roommate has all his sport

What can a child know about death? Death and other major life events may be perceived as something catastrophic, while others view them as opportunities. William Wordsworth, a pioneer of English Romanticism, uses poetry as a means of emotional expression. This genre serves as a homage to individualism, commonly encountered events in nature and emotions ranging from fear to those faced handling the rapid changes in the world. Growing up in rural England during the Industrial Revolution, one is provided with a serene environment to propagate the views of this new artistic movement. Written in late 18th century as part of Lyrical Ballads, a poetry collection, William Wordsworth composes the poem, “We Are Seven” to illustrate the interaction between

Lillian brust through the apartment door and dragged herself to her room in a drunk stumbling motion. Her extensive night of partying left her in a drunken rage and with a hangover that was the size of the universe. As she opened her door and looked at her trashy room she beginner to compare it to her messy, reckless lifestyle. Everything from the stained panties in her room to the used needles laying randomly on the floor seemed to scream secrets no one should know. Her life was in shambles at the moment,