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Gilgamesh speaks to Utnapishtim of his grief, and the death of Enkidu. He asks for some help in understanding the loss while Utnapishtim pities him and gives him reason to hope.

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"Utnapishtim stood on the other shore"

Utnapishtim lives in an island across a sea. His living situation symbolizes his isolation from society. He is different than everyone else G grieves too. Instead of trying to talk sense into him, U. listens and G is able to talk to release grief and sorrow instead of fighting for his friend's name.

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Utnapishtim
- Called "The Distant"
- Drinks from the Well Of Immortality

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"I think love's kiss kills our heart of flesh./ It is the only way to eternal life,/ Which should be unbearable if lived/ Among the dying flowers/ And the shrieking farewells/Of the overstretched arms of our spoiled hope.

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My friend has died so many times in me,/ And yet he seems so alive,/Like a younger brother,/Then suddenly like a soft tissue,/A dried leaf.

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"I crossed the mountains and sea."

Gilgamesh goes through great extent to meet U. The geography in the book constantly creates challenges for G. in his journey. He must cross deserts, mountains, and the sea of death. The sea is the last remaining barrier to his reward, in this case, Utnapishtim's hospitality. Rightly named, the sea of death must be crossed in a strategy much like how life must be made of the correct decisions in a strategy to help live.

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Gilgamesh
- Feels as if Enkidu is still alive and like a younger brother
- Crossed the Sea Of Death to see Utnapishtim, the one who knows the secret to eternal life

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Ea
- A god present at the council where the gods decided to bring on a flood
- He came to Utnapishtim to tell him to tell the city that Enlil, the god of war, despises him and won't let him live in the city anymore. He was ordered to say the this Ea will bring the rains
- Tells Utnapishtim to tear down his house and make a boat to escape

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"Man of Shurrupak, he said tear down your house / And build a ship... / Into the ship / Bring the seed of all the living creatures... / Tell them for this Ea will bring the rain... / The time of the great rains had come"

This story of Ea talking to Utnapishtim can be directly connect in countless similarities to the story of Noah and his ark. In this case Ea, represents God who speaks to Noah or Utnapishtim. The boat resembles the ark and in both stories they bring on to the ship their family and the seeds of living creatures.

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Time and space were uneventful now./Nothing inclined him to impatience

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"Hell is the everlasting gift/ of His presence/ To the lonely heart who is  longing/ Amidst perishing phantoms and doesn't care/ To find immortality..."

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The flood that Utnapishtim survives symbolizes a new start that the characters go through. The riverbanks are fled, the people are killed, and the wind blows the desert brush while the water is described as a sterile vacancy.

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This loneliness which He enjoys forever/Inside and outside of His creation./ It is enough for one who loves/To find his Only One singled in Himself/And that is the cup of immortality!

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"That is the way god thinks, he laughed. His tone/ Of savage irony frightened Gilgamesh/ Yet gave him pleasure, being his friend./ They only know how to compete or echo.

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"A serpent had smelled its sweet fragrance and saw its chance to come from the water and devoured the plant."

This story of a serpent sabotaging a plan can be related to the story of Adam and Eve. The fact that a serpent steals a plant is not directly stated in the other story. However, the serpent does cause a permanent problem for the characters. In this case, G.'s only solution to his problem is now gone.

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I am downcast because of what I've seen/ Not what I still have hope to yearn for./Lost youths restored to life,/ Lost children to their crying mothers,/Lost wives, lost friends, lost hopes, lost homes,/ I want to bring these back to him.

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"Might all be swept up in their fragments/ Together/ And made whole again/ By some compassionate hand/ But my hand was too small/ To do the gathering."

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Ishtar
- The one who craves sensation
- Possessive

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Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh that true immortality is remembering the dead. Do you think Gilgamesh will ignore Utnapishtim and still attempt to get immortality even though he knows he must watch everything he loves dies around him whilst he lives on? Or alternatively if he doesn't take the immortality will he change the way that he sees Enkidu's death?

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Ea went to Utnapishtim and told him to build a boat of of his house because Ea was frightened by the gods decision. Then after the flood Ishtar one of the gods who wanted it then comes to regret the flood because so many people died. If the gods had to relive the event would you think they would change their decision? Also if Ea were to not warn Utnapishtim of the flood would they allow everyone to perish or save a select few?

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In the text it mentions that Utnapishtim told the boatman to bathe him, clothe him, and burn his pelts. Even though Utnapishtim is trying to help him Gilgamesh is refusing his help.  Utnapishtim is only trying to assist him and doing what is best, and he is also the only one who can help Gilgamesh. If this is true why is Gilgamesh being rude and unreasonable to the assistance that is being offered to him?

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Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh about how to receive immortality but also tells him how terrible it is and why he shouldn't get it. Why would Utnapishtim give Gilgamesh a choice instead of hiding the secret of immortality from him if he knows how terrible it is and knows it will curse him to watch what he loves die?

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Then he relaxed, as if there were no use/ In this reflection. I would grieve/ At all that may befall you still/If I did not know you must return/And bury your own loss and build/ Your world anew with your own hands./I envy you your freedom.

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Enlil
- The military leader
- Anu's advisor
- The one who is blamed for having the idea of bringing the flood
- Hates Utnapishtim

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- Utnapishtim tells his story of reaching the land on the other side of the Sea of Death
> The gods decided to create a great flood on the city of Shurrupak, which killed thousands
> In order to save life, the god Ea, came to Utnapishtim, gave him the seeds of life, and commanded him to build a ship in order to escape from the wrath of Enlil.
> Utnaphistim has seen the death of everyone he knew, and he is able to relate to the grief Gilgamesh feels. This way, he is ready to help Gilgamesh seek eternal life.

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- After G sleeps for 7 days, Utnapishtim sends him away in weariness of seeing himself in G. Prior to sending him away, G is told a secret of a plant in the river that gives a new life. G rushes into the river and finds it but as he sets it down on the bank, and bathes himself, a snake eats the plant, and discards his skin.

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Gilgamesh returns to Uruk, and asks if anyone else has heard on Enkidu, with no response. Finally, he sees the walls of Uruk, and this time, in different point of view, was awed at the walls built that previously he did not care for.

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G calls out to Ea and is able to speak to Enkidu for a final time. Enkidu tells him to move on, and cry over him no more. He tells Gilgamesh that if they are truly friends, Gilgamesh will move on. Then, Gilgamesh escapes from the shadows and grief by seeing the celebration outside.

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Gilgamesh has lost his chance to revive Enkidu and his quest to find eternal life was worthless. How do you think Gilgamesh's mentality will change now that he can no longer revive Enkidu? Also if he goes back to his kingdom how will the people act and see him differently?

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"He looked at the walls,/ Awed at the heights/ His people had achieved/ And for the moment-just a moment-/ All that lay behind him/ Passed from view."

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"A serpent had smelled its sweet fragrance and saw/ Its chance to come from the water, and devoured/ The plant, shedding its skin as slough."