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Guilty: The Seventh Man
Would you have guilt if you lost your best friend? The Seventh man is overwhelmed with survival guilt. The Seventh Man lived his whole life with guilt about his friend's death. The reason why he had guilt over his best friends death is he thinks he could have done more to save him. The seventh man was a small child when the accident occurred.
The Seventh Man should forgive himself because The Seventh Man could not control if K. The wave took his best friend and he was present but he could not do anything to change that. He couldn’t physically stop the wave or the enormous power of the ocean. He yelled at K. to follow him and leave because something terrible was coming. He did the right thing so he should not have guilt. He could not change what happened to his best friend. This tragedy devastated The Seventh Man and shaped the majority of his life.
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was lost in thought and The Seventh Man yelled, screamed even for him. K. wasn’t paying attention so he got hit by the wave and was killed by the the second wave not the first and showed up in a casket and reaching for The Seventh Man. “ I told myself to run over and grab hold of him and get out of there”. The wave was coming. The Seventh Man knew the storm was coming but K. didn't know next thing you know The Seven Man found himself running the other way running full speed towards dyke trail alone. he left his friend because his adrenaline kicked in and he wanted to survive. One could say that it was his fault because he took care and protected him from other kids but he did not protect him from the wave he could have stayed closers to him or made him stay farther away from the water. My Position is stronger thought because they were both young and he was not really his responsibility. K should have paid more attention to potential threats. Like the storm The Seventh Man wanted to help k but he
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