Murakami: Character Analysis

Guilt, is what the seventh man felt when he survived the typhoon and his best friend K lost his life. He was only seven at the time when this tragic event happened in his life. K his best friend was a year younger than him. They were best friend, but more like brothers. The day of the typhoon the seventh man went down to the beach while they were in the eye of the storm, and it was rather nice out. Things went horribly wrong though while down at the beach looking at things that the storm had brought in the seventh man felt a vibration and knew the storm was coming back. He tired to yell to K and tell him but K didn’t hear till it was too late, till the wave was right there. The seventh man had ran behind to the break wall to save himself from wave. He watched the wave come in and swallow his best friend and his dog, just like that they were gone. He moved after that and never wanted to come back to his home town, it was to hard for him, he didn’t come back for 40 years(Murakami …show more content…
He could have saved him. When he felt the vibrations he could of ran over to K and grabbed him and they both could have got behind the break wall. Yet he didn’t he felt the vibrations and ran and while running tried to yell to K, but K couldn’t hear him( Murakami pg.137). Like if that were my best friend I would run as fast as I could to save her before saving myself, and the dog to. Now he has to deal with the guilt, he has nightmares of what happened. Seeing K’s body in the water smiling a huge smile at him. Seeing his friends body being engulfed by the huge wave. ( Murakami pg.138) Everyone would have Guilt I mean if you’re a decent human being. It’s hard to live a life knowing that you could have saved someone’s life, but picked yourself over them. Especially when it was someone who you cared so much about. He never shouldn’t of left home and went to the beach in the first place(Murakami