Compare And Contrast Gilgamesh And The Garden Party

About Ones Decisions In life we are given the opportunity to do whatever we want, and our choices are dependent on how well we were raised. We either have the choice of being kind individuals that contribute goodness to the world or become people that commit heinous crimes against our society. In the literary stories of Gilgamesh and â€Å"The Garden party† there were some comparisons and differences in the ideology of the literary text and some come consequences that arise from the one of the characters the one of the literary story. Both literary pieces exhibited narcissistic mindsets from characters Gilgamesh and Mrs., Sheridan. Despite the narcissism, Gilgamesh and Laura discovered what life is meant to be and to not take it†¦show more content†¦He did not find it, but he did come across the plant that Utnapishtim told him about. Utnapishtim said, â€Å"There is a plant that grows under the water, it has a prickle like a thorn, like a rose; it will wound your h ands, but if you succeed in taking it, then your hands will hold that which restores his lost youth to a man. Gilgamesh was strong enough to take a piece of the plant, but a serpent stole it from him, so he went back to having nothing. He always wanted to help himself rather than help his people. His mindset was very relative to the literary piece Furthermore, to expound on a interesting literary piece. A lot of the story is about the preparations and the consequences of the garden party, it was organized by the daughters of the privileged Sheridan family. As dawn breaks, Laura goes into the Sheridans exquisite garden to inspect the proposed site for the marquee. Her encounter with three workers hired to raise the tent is awkward and confused, as she finds herself torn between being a snob and her developing sense of morality. This story is perceived as the difference between life and death, and can sometimes be portrayed in objects. When Laura caught a glimpse of herself in her mir ror after asking her mom about the party ¸ she starts to admire herself in the black hat she was wearing and the thought of the laborer faded farther and farther into the back of her mind. Laura’s family seems to be unappreciative of