After reading the book I saw it was totally different to what I thought it would be. A conclusion I got form the book was that it was the journey of life of a king.
Throughout the book the king changes. I think he changes because his perspective of life changes and he starts thinking deeper into things. I also think he changes because of his companion Enkindu. I can relate that to a lot of people because sometimes people change because of new friends or new people with whom they hang out with. When reading this I also remembered about the movie Journey 2 because in that movie the kid goes through allot of adventures and through a journey like the tittle says to find his grandfather and answers about the island no one new about I can related this to Gilgamesh because he goes through a journey to find answers about death or about what happens after life.
Through tablet 8 and 10 Gilgamesh does allot of things related to his companions (Enkindus) death. He goes through a lot of paths and adventures to find Utnapishtim to ask him about life and death. I think he wants to know all this because he is afraid of what comes after life. Throughout the book he has always shown power by frighting everybody with his strength now he has understood more about life and is afraid of what will come next in his life and if he would still want to have power over people by frightening them. Throughout all of this, Gilgamesh is always asking "must I die to? Must Gilgamesh be like that?" (pg 56) I think this is interesting because it shows how his afraid and uncertain
about the path of his life.
One question I have about the
book is: is Gilgamesh so afraid of death? Why does he go through
all the trouble to find the answer to escape death? Is it
because he doesn't know what comes next? Why?
