In module 3, you wrote a mission statement on your view of human nature. This semester, you have studied a number of authors: short stories by Richard Connell, James Thurber, Jack London, O. Henry, Guy de Maupassant, Frank Stockton, and Ambrose Bierce; a novella by Robert Louis Stevenson; and a novel by Charles Dickens. Choose one author and work that we've studied so far this year that you think best expresses your view of human nature. You will write a well-developed paragraph describing how this literary work conveys your view of human nature. Consider a key character, theme, the author's tone toward a topic, etc. Where do you see an accurate portrayal of human nature?

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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two factors or characteristics of a chapter that might make it difficult to read would be words i don't understand, or if i don't fully understand what's going on in the chapter. strategies i can use to get through the difficult material would be a dictionary, and re-reading previous chapters to get a better grasp of what the author is trying to say.

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