The Seventh Man Critical Analysis

Words: 493
Pages: 2

The narrator of the story The Seventh Man should forgive himself for not being able to save K. The narrator should forgive himself for a number of reasons, from my perspective, which you are going to read about. The narrator isn’t all to blame for the accident, and he shouldn’t be held accountable for it. One of the reasons the narrator shouldn’t be held accountable or K.’s death is that he didn’t just not do anything. He had tried to get his attention to try and help him, but it was too late. “”Hurry K.! Get out of there! The wave is coming!’ This time my voice worked fine,”” (Murakami, page 138). That shows that he did indeed try and get K.’s attention in time or him to be able to try and escape safely. Another reason that the narrator