His friend was dead, and he was alone. That’s the truth. The Seventh Man in the book, “The Seventh Man”, had to watch his friend, K., be crushed by a massive, tsunami-like wave. That alone would have been a dreadful experience, but when he saw his friend floating in a second wave with a crazed, frozen face, it was too much. The face was staring directly into The Seventh Man’s eyes. “In the tip of the wave, as if enclosed in some kind of transparent capsule, floated K.’s body, reclining on its side... K. was looking right at me, smiling.”*. The whole ordeal traumatized The Seventh Man for his entire life because he believed that if he had acted faster, he could have saved K. from the surge. “...I managed to recover—physically, at least.”**. The Seventh Man didn’t recover mentally. He couldn’t forgive himself, but he should’ve. The Seventh Man shouldn’t blame himself for K.’s death, but instead forgive himself for not being able to save him. There is quite a bit of evidence why. …show more content…
when he sensed that the wave was coming. He thought that instead of saving himself, he should have went towards K. first. In the state of an emergency in an airplane, passengers are told to put on their oxygen masks first. Donna Schilder says, “Why is this an important rule for ensuring survival? Because if you run out of oxygen, you can’t help anyone else with their oxygen mask.”****. It’s the same idea in any situation, because the less deaths, the better. This Now by all means, if you can save someone, absolutely try, but The Seventh Man can’t blame himself for that. He had a valid reason to run off the