PART A: Which statement best describes the theme of this poem? A. Death itself is cruel because everyone dies alone and leaves their loved ones

behind.

B. The inevitability of death erases differences between individuals.

C. Tragedy occurs both on the grand, collective scale and on the smaller, individual

scale.

D. War desensitizes people to loss and death over time.

2. PART B: Which quote from the poem best supports the answer to Part A?

A. "To depart without death or birth certificates / the dictator does not give receipts

/ when he takes your life" (Lines 30-32)

B. "It solved by itself a math problem / that multiplied the one death by millions /

to equal homeland." (Lines 37-39)

C. "He has an audience, too, / an audience that claps / until the bones begin to

rattle —" (Lines 41-43)

D. "the full bag finally in her hand, / unlike her disappointed neighbor" (Lines 45-46)

gilgamesh is an epic hero from birth, as he's brought to the world by the hand of several gods who shaped him with the goal of saving humanity. there's a passage from the text that reads "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull". this is a great example that show some of the super-human qualities that the gods gave gilgamesh upon his birth.

as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

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