This response should be thoughtful and developed, should include direct quotations from the text(s) at hand, and should be at least 3 to 5 paragraphs in length:

The Epic of Gilgamesh does not exactly have a happy ending. Certainly the hero, Gilgamesh, is not ultimately successful in his quest. Why do you think the epic ends as it does and not in a more positively heroic way?

I attached some scanned pages of the book that we use so you can use quotes from there