The Seventh Man

I believe that the narrator of “The Seventh Man” should forgive himself for his failure to save his best friend K. it wasn't his fault that his best friend didn't see the wave and didn't move on time. So why would he feel bad about it?

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.

“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.

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

The narrator of “The Seventh Man” should seek forgiveness in himself. Not only is forgiving yourself an essential thing that keeps our lives going, but in his circumstances, there wasn’t much more to do to help his friend.

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.

K. not being aware of the conditions put himself in danger. This meaning, the Seventh Man’s actions are not the only ones to be blamed for, K. is and should also be held responsible for his actions. The Seventh Man’s father letting the Seventh man to go outside leads K. go to make the unwise decision to go to the beach with the Seventh Man which then leads K. to have an unawareness of his conditions he was in. Everyone’s actions had a part to do in K.’s death and the Seventh Man should not be held responsible for them all. And this is why his is able to be forgiven in the

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

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.

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

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

If I were a big Hollywood producer, I would cast Heath Ledger or Johnny Depp to portray the big, curly-headed man in the first video. In the scene that I watched, a man with a deep British accent sauntered around a half circle stage while reciting “The Seven Stages of a Man”. Immediately, I thought of Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow character and Heath Ledger’s Patrick Verona in “10 Things I Hate About You”. The long, casual steps he took as well as his hand gestures reminded me of those two characters. So, that is why I would cast one of them. For the stage, I would have it be a large, open room like an art gallery. There would be stark white walls and no stage. Then, there would be seven scenes set up around the room. Each scene would depict one

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.

Survivor's guilt occurs when one blames themself for not saving another in a life or death experience. “The guilt begins an endless loop of counterfactuals-thoughts out could have or should have done otherwise, though in fact you did nothing wrong.” (Sherman, 153). What the Seventh Man feels throughout Murakami’s story is guilt for surviving when K. did not. Even if the narrator couldn’t have helped K. anymore than what he accomplished by calling out to him. “‘I’m getting out of here!’ I yelled to K. … my voice did not seem to reach him. He might have been so absorbed in whatever it was he had found that my call made no impression on him. K. was like that.” (Murakami, 137). K. wouldn’t have been able to be saved because even just calling to him

It is April 11, 2011, and one month has passed since the great Japanese tsunami splintered the island. In a small coastal village, a man parks his car at a distance and walks towards the only object in a large field: Kaze No Denwa, the “Phone of the Wind.” Tears begin to well in his eyes as he feels the gentle breeze wash over him. His shoes crunch the loose gravel underfoot. On this day, there is no-one else around.