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During Gilgamesh's journey he starts to wonder how a man can become immortal and tries to find out a way to do so , on the way he met Upnapishtim who is the god of floods, he starts to tell Gilgamesh the story about how there is a flood and he has to build an arc and put two of each animal in it. and how after the flood he finds land. Gilgamesh then asks how he can become immortal and he sends him on some quests , one is not to sleep for a week but when he is about to begin he falls into a deep sleep, Upnapishtim tells his wife to bake bread every day until Gilgamesh wakes up so that there is proof that he was asleep since he would deny it, Gilgamesh woke up on the seventh day. This story is like the story of Noah's arc because he builds a boat (arc) to ave all the animal species from a flood, he is then honored for saving the animals and human kind.

VIII - X

This section in Gilgamesh I understood a lot that since Enkidu was dead he had a lot of questions and wanted answers even if it was a very dangerous or long journey to find those answers. He starts to think about how a human can be immortal or be a god , on his journey he meets a lot of people that try to help him find answers. A movie similar to this is Hercules he is a god but doesn't know. Once he finds out he initiates a journey to find out where he belongs and what his purpose in life is. So for being the first text ever written (Gilgamesh) they have the same theme or morale as some moved from now a days.

I believe that when we die we go to heaven, that is only if we have been good. Heaven to me is a place where the soul goes after death, there we meet with other people and loved ones who have passed away and we join them there. I think these pictures represent heaven in different ways. The first shows how we reunite people in heaven, the second one shows that it is a superior place that there is a light at the end of the tunnel(the tunnel being death) and the third shows that it is beautiful even though no one knows how it truly is.

VI- VII

I can relate to this section because I think that the bull that was sent by the goddess is a problem, so if you treat it in a good way with respect and wisdom nothing bad will happen, but if you treat it in a negative, disrespectfully or you harm it you will have karma. So when Gilgamesh killed the bull that the goddess sent out of revenge, he got more karma which later on ended up affecting two people, Gilgamesh himself and Enkidu, Because the goddess got mad and killed Enkidu because Gilgamesh was gifted. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh feels a terrible greif and pain which leads to a time of sorrow. So I believe that if you get karma you can also affect someone close to you in a way.

IV- V

What do the dreams that Gilgamesh has represent in the story ?
How does Enkidu know what they mean ?
How could the smell of the demon be death but the forest be so pretty and alive ?
Why did both Gilgamesh and Enkidu hide but one first and then the other ?
Why does the demon surrender at the end of the battle ?

I- III

At the begining the story reminds me of two movies, the beauty and the beast and the little mermaid because in the movie the beauty and the beast the beast is tamed by bella a woman who by kissing him turns him into a prince. And then the little mermaid gives up her tail to get legs and become human so that she can marry the prince. So that relates to the palace prostitute taming the man of the wild.

There is another movie that I saw and relates to another event, the movie is called "Big Mike".  It is a movie about a homeless kid who is adopted into a wealthy family and protects the children from danger, I think that this is exactly what happens in Gilgamesh. Because Gilgamesh's mother adopts Enkidu so that he can battle the dangers until it is time to fight the demon.