Nancy Sherman Essay

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s been perceived as guilty should have to experience that feeling. Disasters can cause many things,but one of the outcomes isn’t often talked about. Survivors from the disasters often suffer from a guilt known as surviovrs guilt, which is explained in the writing of Nancy Sherman. Sherman describes it as a feeling that comes from surviving an event that caused others to lose their life. The survivor feels as if it was their fault for not helping the others.

The seventh man blames himself for K.’s death because he was the only person at the beach when the waves came. While at the beach K. wanders off alone towards the water, it was a foolish decision to leave the seventh man during the storm knowing the dangers that could accur. The text said the distance that K. wandered which was 10 yards away from the seventh man. The reader can come to the conclusion that K. was to far away because he couldn’t hear the seventh man while he was yelling at him. The seventh man did all he could to save K. without comprimising his own life in the proccess.

It is easy to blame the death of K. on the seventh man because he was the only person on the beach when K. died. There were …show more content…
“...Typhoons were an annoyance and a threat they had to face almost annually”. The family thought that they knew what was going to happen so it wasn’t a big deal when the boys went to the beach. Nobody was excpeting the tsunami. “I had never seen anything like it before. Child though I was, I had grown up on the shore and knew how frighting the ocean could be.” The seventh man didn’t know how to act during this annomaly. In the writing of Sherman she talks abotu flukish luck while the seventh man didn’t have any luck the tsunami did come out of no where without any prior warning. He did a very human thing to freeze under the fear and pressure and by the time he snapped out of it the wave had already
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