Non-Sequitur

               

Look Now: Forever Alone

Is this a comic? Why or why not?

I think it is a comic because it is telling a story in some sort of way. It might not have words, but it's a symbol with a meaning.

HW: The Quest For Eternity

This tablet is about Gilgamesh searching for inmortality so that he does not have the same faith as Enkidu did. He also goes to the tavern keeper and demans her to let him in but she closes the door. This reminded me of the movie Percy Jackson because he also goes to the gate keeper. Even though boths encounter with the gate keeper are very different I can still find them similaritys. Both encounters are different because in Percy Jackson the gate keeper is a very old man and in Gilgamesh it is a women. I find this very interesting because Gilgamesh talks to the tavern keeper as if she was a friend but in Percy Jackson he talks to the gate keeper very seriously because the destiny of Percy saving his mother is in the gate keepers hands.

In this tablet I believe I saw a difference in Gilgamesh. At the beginning of the epic he seems to be a very strong being that could not be brought down no matter what. I saw a change is this when the tavern keeper tells him "why do you look like one who has undergone a terrible journey, why do you look like one who grieves". I saw Gilgamesh was tired, not only physically but also mentally because he lost his good friend Enkidu, he shows this by wearing the lions coat and saying "I wander the wilderness wearing the skin of a beast because I grieve for the death of Enkidu the companion". He also shows how much he misses them and how much he meant to them because he wants to greive for the death of Enkidu and try to escape the same fate Enkidu had.

Air And Water For Greater Power

HW: Hate And Appreciation

Hate and appreciation are the first 2 words that come to mind as soon as I think about what I read. Those are 2 very strong words used for the same reason and by two very different individuals.

Hate was what Enkidu felt against the hunter who saw him, the hunter who told Gilgamesh about Enkidu unsetting the traps the hunter had put for the gazelles and animals near the watering holes. The traps the hunter had set for Enkidu's family. Enkidu hopes for the worst for the hunter, for him to live a life of misery just because he had seen Enkidu. He also wishes the worst for the temple prostitute, the one that took him away from the watering hole and into Uruk, the one that seduced him and took away his family and everything he had previously known.

Appreciation was what Gilgamesh wanted everybody to feel towards Enkidu for all the great things he had done. He wanted the people who where saved by Enkidu from the bull to be thankfull and appreciative of the efforts Enkidu had done to save Uruk. He also wanted all the people. Gilgamesh wants everybody to mourn for Enkidu because he had meant so much to Gilgamesh, he had been like the brother he never had, the companion he never found or the person that stood up to him when nobody else had.