lunes, 1 de septiembre de 2008

The trip to the Cedar Forrest

Gilgamesh and his friend, Enkidu, after deciding to make an adventure to the cedar forrest, start their trip. "In three days walk a hundred and fifty leagues, a three week's walk for an ordinary men"pg 21.  This means that they were going very fast, thanks to the anxiety of Gilgamesh to go and conquer the Huwawa. In the path, he has a lot of dreams of mountains destroying, of earth separating and breaking, and many other different and strange dreams. Always he consults to Enkidu his dream, and Enkidu keeps telling him that he was fortunate to have this dream and explains why. It becomes like a nightly routine. He sleeps, has a dream, wakes up, consults Enkidu, says to be fortunate, and then start walking again. I dislike one thing about the book in general and it is that the author, whoever it is, is very repetitive. He says things more that once in the same page, more than 4 times in the same tablet. I don't know if this has anything to do with the oldness of the text, 270th century B.C., because maybe the people of those times usually wrote like that, whatever reason it is, I don't like to read books like this. I think that with a good author that resumes this book, it could make a good childrens book, because it is epical, it has untrue facts, and most children would like it if it had easier language. 

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