Making Connections
The New York Times had an article titled “Strange New World” that is about a children’s book called Kindergarten Diary that discusses the “new world” that children enter and the new adventures that life will bring them. “The abundance of new experiences in “Kindergarten Diary” …” reminds me of Enkidu resembling a child who is fresh to a new world and the knowledge he will learn.
The reason I chose this article is because Shamhat was sent to retrieve Enkidu to leave behind the “Wildman” side, befriend Gilgamesh and enter the “new world” of humans. Similarly, Shamhat taught him how to leave his old tactics of his “free” life behind and to now have humanlike behaviors. I immediately related the two because children also have “free” behaviors and kindergarten is the first step in learning education.
“Come, let me bring you into Uruk-Haven, to the Holy Temple, the residence of Anu and Ishtar, the place of Gilgamesh, who is wise to perfection. (A 182-184)
Works Cited
Posesorski, Sherie. “Strange New World.” New York Times 12 September 2010, New York ed.: The New York Times Book Review 19. Print.
