The Seventh Man Persuasive Essay

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Survivors shouldn't be getting that feeling when or while trying to survive a tragic moment because they should be able to feel like whatever they do is helping them survive. Negativity is what makes survivors feel like they are doing something wrong, the more they positive they are the better they survive and trying to survive with others might be difficult because they might think differently .Many people argue about how some people shouldn't feel survivor's guilt. Some people others feel survivors shouldn't feel survivor's guilt. One reason survivors of life and death situations should not feel survivor's guilt because it could ruin lives of innocent people.The Seventh Man by Haruki Murakami is a short story. This short story is about a young boy who lost his friend at seashore and have always felt like he was the one to blame for his friends death.So he thought staying away from his home town would help him not feel guilt.Also the evidence you're about to read i chosed because i …show more content…
Survivors have these dreams.Even if they didn't do anything to cause the accident but in a situation where people died , the survivors are most likely to have a recurring nightmares because of the guilt they felt. The evidence you are about to read is located in the short story i used earlier which was “The Seventh Man” if you forgot . “I didn't want to wake someone sleeping next to me with my screams in the middle of the night”.”The terror was in my bones”.This evidence is stated in paragraph 47. The piece of evidence that was chosen for my second reason shows how recurring nightmares is an example of how survivors are traumatized after they survived something tragic for example the seventh man couldn't have a life with a wife because of the recurring nightmares that he had for forty years you see survivors shouldn't feel this guilt because it ruins people's life like i have said previously in this

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