Epic Of Gilgamesh: The Hero's Journey
In Unit 4 I have learned many things about myths and rituals, the story of Epic of Gilgamesh, and the stages of the hero’s journey. These three things benefited me in different ways. I did not know anything about myths and rituals and going over the questions that you assigned in class helped me. The questions made me realize what kind of person I am. It made me answers about my rituals, and asked me about my myth opinions. It also talked about my favorite fairy tale and a mythology story that I can relate too. I am glad that you asked me these questions, because now I can tell other people about them and ask them also. Another thing that we discussed in this unit was the story of Gilgamesh. That story was interesting to me, because I have
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Sadly, those people are selfish and rude to others. Well, in the story of Gilgamesh that is how he acted to the town. He wanted his town to be great, but then he did not show any proper manners to his people. The people also said “a king should have better manners.” In this unit we talked about the stages of the hero. There are two hero’s journey stages. One deals with the journey and the other deals with the inner journey. The hero’s journey is basically the obstacles the hero went through, and the heroes inner journey is the overcoming the obstacles. Both of these were shown in the story of Gilgamesh. An example for one of the stages would be the ordinary world. The ordinary world is basically introducing the character. It is the background about the character and the personal life of the character. So, in the story Gilgamesh it opens up about him and the ordinary world stage can help the audience understand a better idea how the character is like when reading the story. Also, another stage is meeting with the mentor, and that is basically when someone meets their mentor, or their companion that will help them in their
Sadly, those people are selfish and rude to others. Well, in the story of Gilgamesh that is how he acted to the town. He wanted his town to be great, but then he did not show any proper manners to his people. The people also said “a king should have better manners.” In this unit we talked about the stages of the hero. There are two hero’s journey stages. One deals with the journey and the other deals with the inner journey. The hero’s journey is basically the obstacles the hero went through, and the heroes inner journey is the overcoming the obstacles. Both of these were shown in the story of Gilgamesh. An example for one of the stages would be the ordinary world. The ordinary world is basically introducing the character. It is the background about the character and the personal life of the character. So, in the story Gilgamesh it opens up about him and the ordinary world stage can help the audience understand a better idea how the character is like when reading the story. Also, another stage is meeting with the mentor, and that is basically when someone meets their mentor, or their companion that will help them in their