Should The Narrator Of The Seventh Man Forgive Himself

Should the Narrator of the Seventh Man forgive himself for his failure to save k? For over forty years a man refused to return back to his hometown. The town he spend the first decade of his life in turned into his worst nightmare all because of one traumatic experience. The town’s name was Province of S. It was a very small town and the man only had one friend. K, the name of his best friend, was younger than him, and they thought of each other as brothers. The accident occurred while the small town was in the eye of a Typhoon. The winds died down, so K and the man were allowed to wander down to the seaside. Immense amounts of debris blanketed the sand. Everything they saw was a new discovery. Amazed by their findings K began to look at each thing as if he was in a trance. All of a sudden, the man knew what was coming, and he knew he had to get out of there. An enormous wave rose up and in a way, covered the sky. He called for K. “I was sure I had yelled loud enough, but my voice did not seem to have reached him. He might have been so absorbed in whatever it was he had found that my call made no impression him”(Murakami pg 137). At this point, there was nothing he could do. The wave peaked and then all in an instant, it swallowed K. For many years of his life, the man suffered from guilt. Guilt that was so strong he went no where near any body of water. The Narrator of the …show more content…
Would your mind really be in the same place as it usually is? The thought of your death would capture your brain, and tell you to save yourself. As selfish as it is, it’s something that is uncontrollable. In the case of this story, what would be better? The death of one child, or the death of two? “As clearly as I knew what I ought to be doing, I found myself running the other way”(Murakami pg 138). The man yelled to K to attempt to save him prior to saying that. He tried his absolute best to get K out of there without endangering