The Story of Gilgamesh

The setting in the story is the city of Uruk where the great king Gilgamesh is, but also the cedar forest. The rising action begins when people give complaints that a beast is eating there animals. Then Gilgamesh sends someone to calm Ekidu. After that, they go back to the city of Uruk. The climax is that after a few years Gilgamesh and Ekidu get lazy. So then Gilgamesh proposed a great adventure, that he and Ekidu will go to the cedar forest and slay the demon Humbaba and cut down his trees. When they got there they saw Humbaba and they killed him. The falling action is that when they get back to the city, Ekidu starts to have nightmares about the house of dust and he can see his ancestors. Then the spirit of Humbaba appears and curses Enkidu. About two weeks later he dies. The resolution begins when Gilgamesh gets back to Uruk he kneels and praises Uruk, and for his creation to carry on his name for generations to come.