Tim Thomas 'Mistake In The Movie Seven Pounds'

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 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.

He initially had no interest at all in nature, but after some adjustments he changed his mind and gained a “relationship” with nature and, he even learned some survival skills along the way. In the beginning of the text, Ben preferred to be indoors making videos, or being a detective or even just watching television rather than being outside like his younger sister Olive. This meant that unlike his sister Ben did not develop any survival skills. This became a problem, when the Silver family were suddenly on the run from the cops and found themselves in a life or death situation. The novel mentions that, ‘wilderness was his enemy”. This was one way of showing that Ben did not like to be outside in nature. Eventually, Ben changes views and he now appreciates and enjoys being outdoors in nature. He even finds peace within the wilderness. The novels says Ben had “missed this placed”. This shows that he has changed tremendously. He has gone from Ben, the being indoors lover, to Ben the Nature loving boy. This was a significant change for the

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 guilt about this for his entire life. In Sherman’s editorial, she states that, “Subjective guilt, associated with this sense of responsibility, is thought to be irrational because one feels guilty despite the fact that he knows he has done nothing wrong.” (Sherman 154). The Seventh Man did not do anything wrong, therefore, if he were to feel guilt, it would be subjective. The failure to fulfil a task due to fear or another overpowering feeling is not the same as doing something incorrectly. The Seventh Man says, “What made me do this, I’m sure, was fear, a fear so overpowering it took my voice away and set my legs to running on their own.” (Murakami 138). This statement illustrates how he desperately wanted to do the right thing and run to his friend, but his feelings and subconscious thoughts drove him to do the opposite. This is something a person cannot be blamed for. Therefore, it would only be reasonable for the Seventh Man to forgive himself for what occurred.

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.

Ben’s punishment was that he had to go in the maze with the Grievers and spend the night. There was no chance of survival. I used to think that the people here were very strict, but wouldn’t want to torture anyone, but now I’m realizing that the people here are really harsh and will put Ben in the maze with Grievers. Being that, Chuck said, “ ‘He’s being Banished. Tonight, for trying to kill you.’ ‘Banished? What does that mean?’ Thomas had to ask, though he knew it couldn’t be good if Chuck thought it was worse that being dead.” (Dashner 89). In fact, Ben had to spend the night in the maze. There was no chance of survival because no one has ever survived a night in the maze. Therefore, the Gladers have rules and if you break one, you pay for

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.

Ben’s Purpose in the Drama (Consider how his appearances give meaning to the drama as a foil* to Willy.)

Ben is also a very peculiar character.  The audience first encounters him with the full knowledge that he is dead.  Ben is also the one figure that is able to move freely between the past and the present.  Because Ben represents that which Willy seeks, Willy feels that he can achieve his goal the same way that Ben did and so he believes that "opportunism, cheating and cruelty are success incarnate" (Smith).

In the book “After The First Death” Ben father the General push Ben to commit suicide. Do to the actions the General made Ben go throw in the hijacking. But Ben death could have been prevented. Only if Ben father would have shown he caryed about thing Ben did and made better choose on the day of the hijacking.

Ben had to deal with a kinds of shame, he had his family ashamed of him and he was ashamed of himself. His whole family was disgraced the way he look and

New World Discoveries Ever wonder what it is like to have a rough, horrible life and end it by being the most successful person ever? Ben Franklin had a tough start in life. Halfway through Ben’s life he had more struggles than anyone can handle thrown at him. At the end of Ben’s life, he became the most successful man on earth. Ben Franklin had childhood and early life hardships throughout his life, but then he became very successful by inventing new concepts.

The author uses flashback on page 109 when he writes “Bubby, why did leave me? You ran away. Bubby, why did you run?” This establishes how even though Ben is laying on his death bed, he can still remember what happened and what he didn’t do for his sister. The guilt is trapped inside of him and it brings us back to the memory lane and we wonder what had happened to cause it. And we know there’s a whole

Ben exemplified compassion in many cases, were he would sacrifice himself or his personal trails for someone else troubles. In reality this scene can compare with real life cases in the world today how compassion can be shared with people to impact others. In the movie Ben finds himself falling in love with a girl name Emily, who has an enlarged heart that he later gave his life for her to survive. Ben shared compassion with 6 other people, but given the most compassion to Emily.

Mistakes something that we all do. People are not perfect therefore we will all make mistakes many times in our life. But there are two types of people in the world's ones that will live up to their mistakes and accept that they did it so they can move on. And there are those that will never live up to the mistakes they made and they will never be able to move on. The only way to truly learn from a mistake is to accept that you made one. There have been many times in my life that I have messed up and made mistakes. Some very terrible some not so bad. But none of them never were as bad as this one but, what i learned from the mistake made it all worthwhile.