Why Was The Number Seven Important

The seventh man should forgive himself for his failure to save K.’s life. In the novel “the seventh man”, the seventh man is a child during a typhoon. He and his best friend ,K., go down to the water during the eye of the storm to investigate the shoreline. When they reached the beach, there were lots of unfamiliar and fascinating items washed up on the shore. The boys were so focused on the treasures that, consequently, they did not notice the waves creeping up the shore. Our narrator, the seventh man, noticed a huge wave moving quickly and maliciously in from the horizon. As he runs to shelter behind the breakwall, he yells for K. to run away from the water. However, K. is still entranced by the debris at the shoreline and doesn’t hear him. The seventh man knows that he should go back for K., but he is transfixed by the horror of it all and only springs into action to run behind the breakwall. K. finally realizes what is going on and tries to run away; but, it is too late. K. is sucked away from the beach in a thunderous torrent of water. In the next wave that attacks the shoreline, the seventh man sees K.’s body; grinning horrendously and wickedly at him. He is traumatized and feels responsible about K.’s death until the day he finally learns to forgive himself. He spends many long years being tortured by his guilt at K.’s death. He needed to let go of the pain that he carried for all those long and terrible years. Maybe he could have saved K., maybe he couldn’t have; but

In The seventh most important thing by Shelley Pearsall, Arthur T.Owens throws a brick at a local man that collects rubbish. Arthur and his sister always call him junk man, although they would later find out that his name is actually James hampton. After getting out of juvie, arthur has a long nerve wracking time in court to decide his punishment for throwing a brick at junk man. Instead of being sentenced to more time in juvie, junk man offers an alternative, he is sentenced to one hundred twenty hours of community service… working for him. He would pay off those hours every Saturday. “ One kid. One crime. One chance to make things right.”

In The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall, Arthur is seen as a troubled kid, because of November’s accident. Of course it is not a normal thing to throw a brick at a random person, for no reason. Although Arthur claimed in front of a judge and jury that the reason he threw the brick was not the color of his skin, but because of the hat that he was wearing. The judge then sentenced him to 120 hours of working for James Hampton, the man hit with a brick, while he recovers from his injuries. Arthur goes through an adventure every Saturday. Exploring what is considered a “shady” neighborhood. Arthur’s views of Mr. Hampton change over the course of the 120 mandatory hours. Mr. Hampton is no longer seen as the “crazy junkman” but he’s

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.

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.

You don’t think that something is ever going to happen to you or your loved ones, but what if it did and someone you were closed to lost their life? The feeling of guilt from not being able to do anything because he/she is already gone weighing down on you. Some people just make bad decisions and some just happen to be in the wrong spot at the wrong time, but should people in life or death situations be held responsible for the cost of their actions?

Survivors guilt.... An emotion brought on by a traumatic experience. Thing like watching a fellow soldier or close friend die. In the story, “ The Seventh man” The narrator Goes through watching the death of his best friend K. This experience bring on survivor's guilt talked about in the story “The Moral logic of survivor's guilt.” Even though the narrator of the story had watched K die, he should have been able to forgive himself. Although there is a cost to surviving, no matter what he told himself it was not his fault that K had died so tragically.

The novel Counting by 7s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan, has a copyrighted date of 2013. The conflict that takes place is how will Willow Chance progress without her parents. Following this, she is living in the moment, unknowing what going to occur in the next chapter of her life. The beginning of book starts of with tragedy that affects Willow as she comes home from ice cream. With counselor, Dell Duke, her new friend Mai, and Mai’s brother. The setting takes place, at Willow’s home pulling up to pavement by her house. Where everyone in the car witnesses a police car at the driveway. As Dell Duke talks to the police, there voices are still audible for Willow to understand. Willow had been conscious of that her beloved ones no longer existed in

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.

In the story “The Seventh Man” the author effectively uses imagery to convey that the best way to overcome your fears is to face them. When K was taken by the wave the seventh man stated that he saw K in “Its cruel, transparent tongue” of the wave. The seventh man could see K so clearly through the transparence of the wave that the Seventh man saw K with a big wide grin and K’s hand reaching out to reach out to the Seventh Man. The Seventh Man’s fear is the wave swallowing K and he couldn’t help K in any way ,but when he did it was already too late. K’s hand reaching out to grab the Seventh Man’s hand is a way for the Seventh Man to have an easy way out of overcoming his fear and to accept that his fears will be there forever. instead of being

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

Willow is a pretty unordinary girl, she has really loving adoptive parents, grows her own herbs in her garden, talks all about statistics, always counts by 7's, and doesn't care what people think of her. She's finally in middle school but even though she loves statistics she isn't very smart so the teachers are suspicious when she does extremely well on her first test. She gets called to the principals office and he determines that she is cheating so he sends her to the district counselor Dell Duke who has seen his fair share of rebels. Along with her "friends" Dell and Quang-Ha she learns the values of having faith. In Counting By 7's by Holly Sloan she and her friends discover that you should always believe in yourself and others that things will work out.

Chapter seven clearly serves to prove the strength education has on us as humans. It opens doors to ideas and

In the story “The Seventh Man” the narrator was in a deadly typhoon where his best friend was killed because he went to the beach during the eye of the storm. Instead of going to get his friend when he yelled and thought a wave was going to come, he ran and hid behind the storm wall. His friend was killed because the narrator had taken his friend to the beach and was a coward. The narrator feels surviver guilt and the burden of dealing with that guilt is his fault because he failed to help his friend.”The guilt begins an endless loop of counterfactuals-thoughts that you could have or should have done otherwise.”(Sherman page 153).You could say there was nothing he could do but, instead of yelling he could have grabbed his retarted friend and

In the book The Seventh Most Important Thing it tells that Arther is a compashnit and lier. First he is vary loving to his mom and his little sister. On page 84 " His first panicked thought was that something bad happened to. His mom and Barbara." He loves them so much that he would happily, put his family first not him. He is also a liar on page 50 " Yet another lie." What this tells me is that he has lied again. Also on page 63 "It wasn't a complete lie." What this quote tells me is that he lied agen but its not complete lie. In conclusion even tow he is a lier he is still compashint for