Analysis Of Nancy Sherman's 'Moral Logic Of Survivor Guilt'

Should the narrator of “The Seventh Man” forgive himself for his failure to save K? The narrator should forgive himself for not saving K because they would have probably both died if the narrator tried to save K. The narrator of “The Seventh Man” experiences survivor guilt for living through the disaster and his best friend K dying. He lives most of his life doubting his decision on not saving K but then learns to forgive himself towards the end of the story. In “The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt” it talks about how soldiers who have lived through the war but their friends have died, experience survivor guilt which is very depressing to see. Even though The Seventh Man Isn’t a soldier he still shares these same traits to soldiers because the have both lost close friends.

I strongly think the “The Seventh Man” should forgive himself for not saving K because he did everything he could when he was yelling at him to get out of there. If he would’ve tried to save him then both of there spirits would be in the sky. “The Seventh Man” cold have tried to save his friend but he had to go with what his mind and what his gut where telling him, and they were telling him that he

needed to get out of the situatin as fast as possiable or else things would go wrong. He chose on his own to yell for his friend because that was his first reaction and that shows how much he actually ment to him.
“The Seventh Man” went through this thing called survivor guilt for most of his life.

In the story “The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt”, Nancy Sherman talks about survivor guilt. She explains how soldiers come back from a devistating war and have survivor guilt. What is survivor guilt? Survivor guilt is when a soldier has expierenced something terriable from a war, for example if they come back alive but have friends who died makes the soldier feel upset thinking he shouldn’t be alive and that he should be with his friends or they should’ve lived and the soldier shouldn’t have. Even though “The Seventh Man” isn’t a soldier he still felt what soldiers felt when they expierienced survivor guilt because they both have something in cmmonand thats them knowing they should be with their friends up in the

sky.
In “The Key to Disaster Survival” it talks about how people help each other out during natural disasters. Daniel Aldridge helped Michinori Watanabe save his fauther in the streets during huricane. During the tsunami in “The Seventh Man” he tried yelling for his friend to save him but he couldn’t save him like Daniel Aldridge helped Michinori Watanabe save his fauther in the streets. Both of these stories show how your communitie or neighbors are more helpful than the police.
Should the narrator of “The Seventh Man” forgive himself for his failure to save K? The narrator should forgive himself for not saving K because they would have probably both died if the narrator tried to save K. The narrator of “The Seventh Man” experiences survivor guilt for living through the disaster and his best friend K dying. He lives most of his life doubting his decision on not saving K but then learns to forgive himself towards the end of the story. “The Seventh Man” shows Survivor guilt and how neighbors are more helpful than police and ambulances.