Summary Of The Song 'The World Was Wide Enough'

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.

The seventh man should forgive himself for not saving K. because he did his best to save him, he gave him a good friendship, and K. was distracted. In “The Seventh Man” he loses his best friend to large wave during a storm. When the wave comes,

but he was not listening. K. was too caught up in looking at something that he blocked out the rest of the world. The seventh man continued yelling to K. but still could not get K.'s attention. K. is the one who is at fault in this situation he is the one who did not pay attention. The seventh man tried his hardest to get K. to listen to him. But he wouldn't

To forgive yourself, for failing to save someone's life, takes a lot of emotional strength and courage. It’s definitely not easy, to forgive yourself, knowing you could have done something to save one’s soul. In this case, we’re talking about in “The Seventh Man”, when he experienced his friend K. die right in front of him, it’s terrifying and downright scary. It’s not everyday when a wave swallows your best friend up, the 7th Man must have been panicking. The question this whole discussion revolves around is that, Should the narrator of “The Seventh Man” forgive himself for his failure to save K. ? I will now give you my opinion on this discussion.

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

“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.

Should the narrator of “The Seventh Man’ forgive himself for his failure of saving K?

In addition, the short story, The Seventh Man, the narrator fails to save his friend because he was overcome with fear. This is shown through the thoughts of the narrator when the wave is about to hit a small beach with him and his friend on it “ I found myself running the other way-running full speed

Imagine being responsible for your best-friend's death. Along with the seventh man, this is how a lot of survivors that have been through traumatic experiences feel. “Blameworthiness, here, depends on the idea that a person could have done something other than he did. And so he is held responsible or accountable, by himself or others.”(The Moral Logic of Survivor's Guilt). The Seventh Man spent 40 years of his life living with survivor’s guilt for what happened to K. In order to accept the reality of what happened on the day of the typhoon, the seventh man must forgive himself for not being able to save 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.

In the story “the seventh man “ the narrator could not save k. The narrator should not be the one to blame for k’s death because

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