How The Epic Of Gilgamesh Changed My Life

When my parents were young the always talked about how their history class changed their life, but I never understood. They always said, “I learned many things that helped me live my life in a successful and positive way.” My parents always told me I’d understand when I am older, and I finally get that history isn’t just things that happened for no reason. Everything in history happened to create what we have today. For example, The American Revolution, happened for independence. It impacted the future and what life is like today. Every story has something you are supposed to learn. The theme of The Epic of Gilgamesh is somethings are unavoidable, unstoppable, and have no way out.
The Epic of Gilgamesh shows Gilgamesh’s life in chronological order. Gilgamesh isn’t the type of person most people think of as the “nice” king, he was the exact opposite. In the article it states, “He works the men like slaves, from sunrise to sunset; yet the king should be a shepherd to his people. He mistreats all women, even the warrior’s daughter and the wife of the noble; yet this shepherd of the city, wise, comely, and resolute.” Gilgamesh was one of the people no one stood up to, no one disagreed with, and no one argued with,
The flood in the passage describes the immortality of Utnapishtim. Gilgamesh thought that if there was anyway way to avoid death he would take it. He hated to think that he would end up the same way as Enkidu. So he pleaded to the gods for a way to be gifted immortality. The god’s replied, “There is a plant that grows under water, it has prickle like a thorn, like a rose; it will wound your hands, but if you succeed on taking itm then your hands will hold that which restores youth to a man.” Gilgamesh went on the search for the camel-thorn root; the root of immortality. He found the root, but lost it. He knew that without the camel-thorn root he was going to die. Gilgamesh had to face the