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Survivor's Guilt In The Seventh Man By Haruki Murakami

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Many people experience survivor's guilt sometimes it’s unreasonable. In the short story, “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami survivor’s guilt is the main topic. In “The Seventh Man” he has a friend that dies and he feels as if he could’ve saved him. The seventh man should forgive himself for his friend's death. He attempted to save him many times and if his friend, K, would’ve listened he could’ve been saved.
The seventh man could have saved his friend he even attempted to save him. On page 138 paragraph 31 he called out to K “Hurry, K,! Get out of there! The wave is coming!” Murakami goes into further detail explaining how K didn’t listen. This means that the seventh man tried to say his friend but K just wouldn’t listen.
If the seventh
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