Gilgamesh starts out his journey to attain immortality at the mountain Mashu where he encounters the Scorpion-men, guardians of boundary between earth and sky, who tell him "It is impossible Gilgamesh, Nobody has passed through the mountain's inaccessible tract. " (Epic of Gilgamesh 140) Gilgamesh is upset since he is asked to leave, no human can make pass through the mountain Mashu. ... Ut-napishtim tells Gilgamesh the story of the flood and how was favored by the Gods with eternal life. Ut-napishtim tells Gilgamesh how mankind originates from clay that can be shaped in various forms. .....

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She starts going out on missions with Green Berets and she changes into a wild woman. ... Mark Fossie, her boyfriend, gets her to go back to how she was for a little but she returns to her wild way. She ended up walking up into the mountains one day and never coming back. ... Tim tells stories about her in the novel and it almost feels like she is still alive. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He decides to go on his own journey in hopes of achieving his goal by talking to Utnapishtim, the one man who achieved immortality granted from the gods. ... Gilgamesh approaches a great mountain where he must undergo a passage to which he will leads to a garden of the gods. ... Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh the story of the flood and how he was granted immortality. ... He tells Gilgamesh that if he is worthy of immortality he should be able to stay awake for one week. ... Before Gilgamesh leaves, Utnapishtim's wife convinces her husband to tell Gilgamesh about a miraculous plant. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is like a stone falls from the mountain to the ground, "PAWN", he falls down. ... He is the only person who knows what is going on. ... He tries to tell his friends that he is in trouble. ... His friends is worried now, they do not know what is going on. ... They tell him yes. ...

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When the epidemic ended, Cottard could not go on. ... He tells them what to see. ... Rieux had to send his wife away to stay in a sanitarium in the mountains due to a year long illness. ... Rieux did not know how many changes he would go through before the ordeal was over. ...

• Word Count: 2018
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• Grade Level: High School