The Seventh Man Essay

Yes, I think that “The Seventh Man” should forgive himself for his failure to save K. Before the wave had ever hit and killed K. the seventh man was yelling and screaming for K. to get out of there. If the seventh man went to go and try to save K., then there could have been many different possibilities that could have happened. It took the seventh man to recover from his failure to save K. a long time. He should have just tried to let it go and think about what happened. Technically it was not the seventh man’s fault for K.’s death it was K.’s fault. Like the seventh man said later on in the story it was a terrible mistake all those years to stay away from home and never go in the water.
Before the seventh man thought about the terrible mistake like I said he should have thought about the situation and what had happened. The seventh man had quoted before the wave crashed and killed K. “This may seem odd, but it might have been a sound that only I could hear- some special kind of sound. Not even K.’s dog seemed to notice it, and you know how sensitive dogs are to sound.” (Murakami 138) That means that since K. missed the sound and did not hear anything …show more content…
The reason he or she might think this is because the seventh man had a lot of time to run and get K. In the story, it quotes, “I found myself running the other way running full speed towards the dike, alone.” Why didn’t the seventh man yell to K. and grab him then both of them could run to safety? In the story, it also quotes, “ I knew that I could have saved K. if I had tried. I probably could have run over and dragged him out of the reach of the wave. It would have been close, but as I went over the timing of the events in memory, it always seemed to me that I could have made it.” This quote says that the seventh man could have made it to K. and saved him. Instead, he just ran the other way and started yelling at K. to get out of