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

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.

The Seventh Man was unsuccessful in saving his childhood friend, K. In spite of his lack of success, he should not have to live with

    Primarily, K’s personality is described as kind, shy, yet artistic. K had such a kind personality, I feel that he would have wanted the seventh man to forgive himself, and live a long/happy life. Such kindness should have been considered when the seventh man thought of the event.

The narrator of “The Seventh Man,” by Haruki Murakami, struggles with the guilt of not being able to save his best friend from a horrendous wave for most of his life. His sleep is ridden with nightmares, and he chooses to never find love, so his future partner wouldn’t have to deal the constant burden of the Seventh Man’s fears. Although the Seventh Man feels strongly at fault for the death of his best friend, K, he should not blame himself for the tragic events that occured, because there was no way to prevent what happened.

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.

“I told myself to run over to K., grab ahold of him, and get out of there. It was the only thing to do.” That line was from the story “The Seventh Man” written by Haruki Murakami (Pg 138 P30) and the story is about a boy, which is the Seventh Man, lives in a town where a big storm was going to occur and the Seventh Man and his friend K. went out to observe the damage so far because they were in the eye of the hurricane. The Seventh Man saw the storm coming back and he ran while K. stayed behind and stood still and didn’t really know what was going on but the Seventh Man was calling his name but K. never noticed and K. ended up dying. That piece of evidence shows the Seventh Man let the fear get to him and it led him to do the wrong thing such as not go and get K. instead of leaving him.

The story takes place for the most part out in a wasteland. There is hard any light at all because of the nothing ness that is in the sky. The temperature is extremely cold so you need a lot of clothes to keep u warm, which in the case of Tal and Milla was wearing. The time that this takes place is in the present but only it is taking place on another world in some other galaxy. Then only other setting of this book is the castle that sits up on top of this mountain. It is very warm in the castle and if filled with plenty of light generated by sunstones.

results in a situation where K. in taken by a wave that a storm is concluded with and therefore K.’s death should be held responsible for by the Seventh Man. Although this is true that the Seventh Man did not grab his friend K. from where he stood he can’t be held responsible if he death of K. is not just one person’s fault or the reason the outcome of the situation happened. There is a sequence of events that is what leads up to a teamwork of people's actions helping to what the finalized result or outcome is. In The Seventh Man the Seventh Man was not the only person to be blamed for the death of his friend K. For example, the Seventh Man's father says the Seventh Man may go outside when the eye of the storm takes places. When the Seventh Man later walks by K.'s house, the decision K. makes to go along with the Seven Man is completely his own, even knowing the dangers if the wind is to pick up again.

The story, “The Seventh Man”, is by Hanuki Murakami. The story is realistic fiction about a kid and his friend, K. going to the beach in the eye of a typhoon. K. and the narrator explore the beach, looking in the rubble to find cool things. While on the beach the second wave comes and kills K.. The narrator lives with the fact that he could’ve saved K., leaving town to leave the nightmares.

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