No creative title bc it’s been quite a weekend

Brenna

Okay so it really kept bothering me that Gilgamesh had to keep repeating the same thing over and over again while he was sad. This was not the only other time either!! It drove me nuts. I felt as if I was in some kind of long, drawn out movie or something. I really did feel bad for Gilgamesh though. He lost his best friend and the person who was beside him for the greatest adventure of his life. I mean I would be Gilgamesh if I lost one of my dogs. Also, I don’t really understand why Gilgamesh is afraid of death because Enkidu is dead. I mean I get it, but if it were me I would want to be reunited one day with my closest companion. 

Now the flood chapter. This chapter does not fit in the Epic and again it drives me crazy like so many other things in this book (okay rant over). Yes, it plays a role in the epic but it’s like story, random chapter in the middle, story. I don’t know why it bothers me, because truthfully it really doesn’t stand out too much, but it does. 

Overall, I really did like this book. My brother read it last year in his high school English class, and he said he hated it and thought it was so weird. So originally I thought I wouldn’t like it then I remembered we were almost kind of polar opposites. I just like the whole “Hero’s journey” idea and I always have. I truly loved how this set up how movies are directed and that the Epic of Gilgamesh was really just the ancient version of the Avengers. 

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