The Seventh Man

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The narrator of “The Seventh Man” should forgive himself for failing to save K., his best friend. There are a few reasons to why he should forgive himself. During a time of a disaster, your instincts take over and you lose sight of your morals and everything else. Another reason would be that K. did not seem to mind dying. He was smiling inside the second wave that carried him back towards shore. Some say that the narrator had time to save K. But if you were put in the same situation, wouldn’t you do the same thing? That is why he should forgive himself. Now take a look into it with more depth. The first reason is that during a time of a disaster, your instincts take over and you lose sight of your morals and everything else.
When the wave started to come down, his instincts take over and you lose sight of your morals and everything else. The nameless narrator of the short story was in a typhoon and when the eye of the storm hit, he and K. went out to look around and see the damage so far. While they were at the beach looking at the debris, he saw a large wave coming towards the town and tried to get K. to see it. When he failed and to make K. look, his instincts took control and he ran to hide behind the dyke. He then waits until the wave is over, and then heads out to find K., but does not see him anywhere. When the second wave comes, he does not hide. Instead, he looks straight at the wave and sees K.
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if I tried(Murakami 140).” The narrator agrees with them on how he could have saved him if he tried. But if he did try to save him, they both would have died. When your instincts take over, you can’t do anything about it. That is how it works. That is why he should forgive himself. The narrator of “The Seventh Man” should forgive himself for failing to save K., his best friend. The essay shows why he should forgive himself. If you were in that situation, would you forgive

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