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The geographic challenge that the sea provides is a problem for Gilgamesh. Normally, the sea will rot away anything it comes in contact with. Gilgamesh avoids this by making a sail. This shows how Gilgamesh is powerful because he cheats inevitable death. It also is symbol of mortality, that everything must die. Because Gilgamesh is able to get across, he is finding a way to overcome mortality.

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- old and rugged
- eyes full of hospitality
- right eye is blind
- left eye is slowly decaying
- looks lonely

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- resembled loss itself

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- U does not add to G fatigue
- touches G's shoulder to put him at ease
- happy that G took such great lengths to save his friend
- Happy to have company
- Tells fisherman to rebirth G

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"Two things encourage me to hope, he said;
That one can come this far to bring life to a friend
And that you understand how we must borrow light."

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If the effects of grief are so strong on Gilgamesh that not even an immortal being thinks he can help him, how do you think that this would effect the kingdom?

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- walks with U
- U is like a father
-  tied stones to his feet and sinks to the bottom of the river
- grabs a plant to grant him  new life
- Takes a bath and the serpent takes his plant
-recognizes grief

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Utnapishtim represents hope because he is Gilgamesh's only chance to bring back Enkidu.He is "the only one who did not add to his fatigue" However he tells Gilgamesh that love kills your body, but it makes you live forever in the hearts of those who loved you. He says that true immortality

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If the only way to find immortality is to find happiness or love in someone or something, then has Gilgamesh already achieved it and if so is it possible for the privilege to be revoked?

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- happiness and love can grant you immortality because you will forever  be remembered
-  the memory of someone will forever go on
- immortality is bad
- you watch your family die

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- lived in a city called Shurrupak
-gods say to build a boat and leave before the flood
- abandon your possessions
- U warns the city about a flood
- U 's family came with him
- Everyone dies except the people on the boat
- granted imortality

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- Enlil: military, hates everyone, creates a flood
- Anu: aging, weak minded
- Ishtar: sensation craving one
- Ea: warns U to run away from the flood
- Everyone: regrets the decision for the flood

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Ea relates to the Jesus in the bible. He tells younger Utnapishtim to destroy all of his physical possessions in order to serve the greater good. This is like the bible when Jesus comes to the fishermen and tells them to leave their lives to follow him. It more broadly relates to Noah's arch because the gods send a flood and he brings the seeds for a new life to start over.

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Due to Gilgamesh's grief, is it a good idea for him to return?

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Utnapishtim knows the bad part of immortality and doesn't want people to suffer like he is, do you think by having the pelts burned he is trying to prevent Enkidu from being immortal so he doesn't suffer?

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- tells U to wake G up
- reads U's moods

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Gilgamesh jumped and sank to the bottom of the river of death that should have killed him. He grabbed the flower however and managed to survive. Do you think that the plant brought him back to life and managed to help him overcome his grief?

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The war god touched Gilgamesh's forehead and blessed his family. He said, "Before this you were just a man, but now you and your wife shall be like gods. You shall live in the distance at the rivers' mouth, at the source."

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Gilgamesh meets Utnapishtim and learns that the secret to immortality is through friendship and love.

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"Many years ago through loss I learned
That love is wrung from our inmost heart
Until only the loved one is and we are not."

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Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh a secret he has never told anyone. "There is a plant in the river. Its thorns will prick your hands as a rose thorn pricks but it will give to you new life." Gilgamesh found the plant in the river.

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The wife represents the burdens of immortality. He and his family are immortal, so she must live with him and obey him. They are the only ones who are immortal and they cannot disobey the gods so she is bound with him. She has no freedom , baking loaves for eternity.

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"Before this you were just a man, but now you and your wife are shall be like gods."

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A serpent took the plant from Gilgamesh while he was relaxing in the river, not paying attention to it. Gilgamesh got out of the river and noticed that it is gone.

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Gilgamesh returns to Uruk and asks for the name of Enkidu to a blind man. He is unknown. Gilgamesh learns that he has to remember his lost friends. He looks back at the castle walls and sees what they have become and what they truly are.

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"But now there is you.
We must find something for you.
How will you find eternal life
To bring back your friend?"

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"To keep names of friends whom we have lost.
Gilgamesh said nothing more to force his sorrow on another."

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The serpent ate the flower that was supposed to bring back Enkidu. It represents mortality because it shows Gilgamesh how eternal life isn't possible. There is always a serpent or something that ruins the happiness that Gilgamesh has. this can relate to the Devil in the Adam and Eve story. Gilgamesh was happy, being able to bring back Enkidu and Adam and Eve were in paradise. The serpent ruined it giving sin to humans and final death to Enkidu.

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Now that Gilgamesh views things differently how will he improve as a person and King?

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The flower has thorns, just as immortality has its setbacks like watching everyone die. The flower is eaten by a serpent. Gilgamesh is always ruining his own chances to bring back Enkidu like smashing the stones and leaving the flower on the ground. Gilgamesh's grief always keeps him from helping because every situation like the Scorpion people , he isn't thinking rationally. Gilgamesh's pride and overconfidence is what killed Enkidu and is why he is never able to get or deserve eternal life.

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Gilgamesh was a cruel ruler, he made his people slave over the building of the walls, and let them go to waste. In the end, the walls stand strong, even though Gilgamesh has not been there to tell them. He now values the walls because they bring structure and represents society, He misses civilized life and since he has failed, he realizes how he had been to his people.