The Seventh Man Short Story

The question is, would you forgive? Imagine it’s your family member who didn’t come home from one day, you’re sitting there waiting for them to walk in that door whether it’s your mother, father, brother, or sister but they just never return. Imagine that it was your fault that they didn’t come home. If knowing it was my fault in a way, I would forgive. In the short story “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami, there are two young boys who are best friends,inseparable, always together doing everything. They felt like brothers. They even lived right next to each other, One that goes by the name of K who was younger than the other, K is a small frail boy who was a little slower than everyone else but boy if you gave him a pen or a pencil he would make enchanting things, as if a professional had done it! The two boys loved to …show more content…
“I told myself to run over to K,. Get out of there. It was the only thing to do. I knew that the wave was coming and K didn’t.” (Murakami pg. 138). After a few seconds The Seventh Man found himself running the opposite way he had got to the sand and yelled at K one last time and he had heard him! But, it was too late, a huge wave came and swooped him up as he tried to run away but he was no match. K was nowhere to be found or his dog, and all The Seventh man could do was think to himself why he didn’t save him. Another wave hit and he just stood there watching, ready to be taken like K the wave stopped and just lost all power, when he was looking up at the wave he had saw K on top smiling a huge smile that was ear to ear, he was no longer K. Three days later there was still no sign of K and it was all his