Pretty Down Enkindu
After reading what we were assigned to in Gilgamesh I was pretty shocked by all that happened. I didn't expect for Gilgamesh to be so upset about Enkindu dying. When he said "Why am I left to live while my brother dies? Why should he die and I be spared to live?"(38) I didn't see the how whole going on the journey and be woeful would help him. "Gilgamesh wandered in the wilderness grieving over the death of Enkindu". (48) While I was reading I remembered that in class we had to make predictions. I had predicted that Enkindu at the end would become more like Gilgamesh and that Gilgamesh would become like Enkindu. I was right about Enkindu, at the end he became bitter. Enkindu was actually scaring me by saying things like "May the garbage of the city be what you eat" (here he was cursing the prostitute for bringing him to Uruk, page 40). I understand where Enkindu is coming from, I mean if I were dying I'd be pretty bummed also but, it sounded strange to me coming from him since he was so naive and free at the beginning of the book.
I realized that that is how life plays out sometimes, especially now that we're in high school. People turn into people they said they would never become. Enkindu never said that he would never be like Gilgamesh, though he did imply that he thought he was disgusting. When he said "Then Enkindu was full of anger and said: take me to Uruk the city of Gilgamesh whose aura and power cannot be withstood. I will cry out in Uruk challenging him". (14)This is after he was told that when a couple would get married "Before the husband, Gilgamesh will lie in pleasure with the bride in the marital chamber."Sometimes I think that the expression "you hang with the dogs, you get the fleas" is true, I know it sounds somewhat harsh but, this happens with a lot of people.
For example, looking back at Britney Spears in the early 2000's. After marrying rapper Kevin Federline who was known for doing drugs and partying, her life spiraled out of control. It is a lot to blame just one person for the down turn of somebody's life, and also there being no actual proof that this marriage had caused her to go out of control, you can infer that he was a big influence. Also that I cannot stop and not wonder what would've happened to Britney if she had never met Kevin Federline. Just like I can't help but wonder what would've happened to Enkindu if he had never been seduced by the temple prostitute. Would he still be happily living worry free with all the animals? Or would he eventually had found his way to human civilization. Two very different scenarios with different outcomes that I think about with curiosity just like I do about Britney.
I realized that that is how life plays out sometimes, especially now that we're in high school. People turn into people they said they would never become. Enkindu never said that he would never be like Gilgamesh, though he did imply that he thought he was disgusting. When he said "Then Enkindu was full of anger and said: take me to Uruk the city of Gilgamesh whose aura and power cannot be withstood. I will cry out in Uruk challenging him". (14)This is after he was told that when a couple would get married "Before the husband, Gilgamesh will lie in pleasure with the bride in the marital chamber."Sometimes I think that the expression "you hang with the dogs, you get the fleas" is true, I know it sounds somewhat harsh but, this happens with a lot of people.
For example, looking back at Britney Spears in the early 2000's. After marrying rapper Kevin Federline who was known for doing drugs and partying, her life spiraled out of control. It is a lot to blame just one person for the down turn of somebody's life, and also there being no actual proof that this marriage had caused her to go out of control, you can infer that he was a big influence. Also that I cannot stop and not wonder what would've happened to Britney if she had never met Kevin Federline. Just like I can't help but wonder what would've happened to Enkindu if he had never been seduced by the temple prostitute. Would he still be happily living worry free with all the animals? Or would he eventually had found his way to human civilization. Two very different scenarios with different outcomes that I think about with curiosity just like I do about Britney.
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