Enkidu and Gilgamesh travel to the cedar forest together and travel extremely fast. It said that they walk in three day what a normal human would walk in three weeks. They help each other and travel as one which represents how team work can help you in every situation. On page 21 is sais “The two of them traveled fifty leagues a day, never resting except at night trying to rest, stopping only once a day to eat; in three days’ walk a hundred and fifty leagues, a three weeks’ walk for an ordinary man.” I think that the author is trying to show us that they are not ordinary and that they have incredible strength both mentally and physically. During the night the dug a well Enkidu built a shelter and Gilgamesh prayed to the gods.
During the night Gilgamesh has a bad dream which sais on page 22 “I dreamed we were going through a mountain gorge and the huge mountain fell down on the two of us.” Enkidu said that this dream is good luck but the next day it happens again. Gilgamesh dreams and Enkidu reassures him that it is a good dream. This shows us how important friendship is and how much better you will feel when someone reassures you. This is probably the only reason that they are able to win against Huwawa. Finally the kill Huwawa and go back with his head. I wonder what the people are going to think of Huwawas death and how they are going to treat Gilgamesh. You can really see in these chapters the influence of the gods in these times and the repetition of phrases.
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