Haruki Murakami The Seventh Man

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Have you ever felt so guilty about something you couldn’t help? That’s how the author of the short story “The Seventh Man” Haruki Murakami felt. This story is about a young boy (Haruki) and his best friend (K.) facing this typhoon and sadly K. ended up not making it. Murakami felt like this was his fault due to not running back and getting K. but he should forgive himself for what happened to K. Haruki shouldn’t feel and carry this weight on him that it was his fault. He didn’t cause the storm to come and he surely didn’t push K. into the water, if anything he tried to warn him about it a couple times, but the 2nd time it was too late. “Hurry K.! Get out of there! The wave is coming!” This time my voice worked fine. The rumbling had stopped, …show more content…
“I’m being dragged down under the surface. I see K.’s face there. He has the same huge grin, split from ear to ear, his eyes locked on mine. I try to scream, but my voice will not come. I swallow water, and my lungs start to fill. I wake up in the darkness, screaming, breathless, drenched in sweat.” (Murakami, 141). This is just one of the many nightmares he would have over the years. They eventually began to slow down once he moved away. These nightmares caused him not to marry because he didn’t want to share that terror with anyone else. He should not still feel all those horrible feelings still because he lived half of his life with it and that’s punishing enough. This type of situation can be really traumatizing and difficult to handle. Murakami shouldn’t of had to live with all the regret and all the emotions throughout his adult life. It really ruined him to do anything. “This incident has been emotionally trying for people” (Daily Mail). For anyone going through that kind of trauma would obviously put a dent into someone’s personal life and anything having to do with the person that died, would take awhile to push it out of their

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