The Seventh Man Tried To Die

Have you ever been in a situation where you feel like you could do something but you did not . What if you were in a the woods and a bear was running at but your friend was not paying attention would you tell them about the bear or would you let them get mauled to death to give you a chance to run. Just imagine if you did yell at your friend would you blame yourself for there death. The narrator of “the seventh man” should forgive himself for his failure to save k.

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.

These people are considering that if the Seventh Man had enough time to stand there and plan out his next move and comprehend what was happening, he had enough time to run over to K. and save him. However, like Nancy Sherman says in “The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt”, “The guilt begins an endless loop of counterfactuals--thoughts that you could have or should have done otherwise…”(153). In detail, this quote means that after the tragedy occurred and the result is not good, everyone’s minds automatically start thinking about other paths they could have taken or actions they could have done differently. Although the Seventh Man did share these ideas with the readers, that does not mean that he wants everyone to put the blame on him nor give him all the responsibility for the

Bunny Naidu once said, “If you want your wounds to be healed, stop touching them again and again in the first place.” People have good and bad things happen to them throughout their lives. The people who move on from the past can go on and do everyday tasks and live their lives to the fullest. In the book, the Seventh Man was the only one to blame himself for K’s death. The Seventh Man blamed himself for the loss of his best friend, while everyone around him was telling him that it was not his fault and that he should forgive himself.

He spent most of his time alone doing a job that had little significance to his quality of life. The story orchestrates how the seventh man's life is affected by the loss of K perfectly, just as I was describing before. We can take away from this by showing how surviving affects the lives of many before their traumatic event. Finally, the time it takes to heal from the emotional turmoil of surviving is a long, vigorous journey that may never end. Unfortunately, a majority of survivors never heal, and this forever takes the form of a mental illness called PTSD, a post-traumatic stress disorder.

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.

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 reason for his unexpected death was he was being recorded, having a sexual intimacy with another guy in a room. This shocking incident proves that there needs to be more assistance for the mentally ill patients. Psychotherapy sessions should be given as a assistance to ensure that the patients are getting the attention and time. If there is more assistance for these mentally ill patients, they will not be a risk to themselves, nor to the other people around them.

The Major conflict in the book Counting By 7s by Holly goldberg Sloan is the main character Willow v.s. A permanent lifestyle. The conflict is about Willow not having a permanent lifestyle. She has no parents because they both passed in a tragic car accident. Since her only family is now gone she is forced to be put into foster care.

K. was like that. He would get involved with things to the point of forgetting everything else” (p. 28, Murakami). K. was mesmerized by the flotsam washed up onto the shore and might not have responded to the seventh man anyway. Is the seventh man at fault for K.’s

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

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

Everyman is a morality play from the 15th century with no known author, and The Seventh Seal is a 1950’s fantasy film about a knight returning from the Crusades. Although the timelines for these two pieces don’t match up, they share a lot of similarities: the most prominent of which being the personification of death into a character. Both pieces feature death as an ever-present entity and solidify the inevitability of death. However, through the characterizations of death within these two pieces, the two offer differing views on the role of religion in human mortality, and the creators offer interesting views of human relationships with death himself.