The Epic of Gilgamesh-Reading Blog Tablets IV-V

As I continue to read through this amazing 'rock book', I realize how the story processes, while I encounter many events that I never thought would happen. These two tablets answer most of the questions I firstly asked in the three previous ones, by leading us with the two main characters into the forest, to destroy Huwawa. It made very nervous, and therefore connected to the story. But, throughout this long chapter, I also asked myself many things. Whereas it was a small detail or a whole page, the questions stayed hanging on my mind. This caused me to be more into the book, just to figure out the answer to my interrogations. I asked myself, why would they ever go to sleep against the wind current? Is there any special thing or tradition that makes them want to sleep like this? Why, in the majority of cases, does the author tend to repeat the exact same thing over and over? Is there any writing technique that makes the author do this? How does Gilgamesh end up killing Huwawa? These are some of the questions I thought about as I continued lecturing myself with the words on the pages. Hopefully, most of them will be uncovered as I get deeper into the book.