A Wizard of Earthsea is based on a world filled with dragons, wizards, and pure evil. A book of fantasy and science-fiction written by Ursula K. Le Guin, which won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award (Webmaster). Earthsea is presented as a hierarchical time with medieval technology, but made into an adventure with magic. Ged explains the world in a long phrase, like spoken by the stars that shine bright above, which are the syllables of true names of all in the universe. The novel beings with a young village boy that will go through a journey filled with magic and life, as he is the protagonist name originally Dunny and later his true name Ged, and his new mentor, Ogion whose journey is to overcome obstacles and defeats an evil shadow. In the …show more content…
The supernatural forces started to unfold after Ged’s first attempt at magic. After Ged’s first attempt at magic, he learned many new spells but also made enemies, especially an enemy of himself. Ged’s journey occurs on two different levels, which is an impelling level of adventure that occurs throughout the novel, but also as an internal struggle with his dark side. As the young hero continues his journey, mistakes are made and, in correcting it, he brings to light his true identity and defines himself as a heroic character. The adventures involve the customary supernatural confrontation of villains, monster and magical dragons as seen in some sci-fi genres. As Ged continues his exploration to find the “evil shadow”, he confronts a dragon, which was no ordinary dragon, this dragon spoke the language of Ged’s magic, which only Ged would understand, “it is one thing to read about dragons but to meet a dangerous one,” said the dragon (Le Guin, 77). In the journey to capture and defeat the evil shadow, he encounters a talking dragons, where he must win the battle before continuing his “mission” as a shadow hunter. To a surprise, finding this dragon dismayed him, which Ged had only heard tales of …show more content…
The duties of Ged and his journey is to control his evil side, which has been blinded throughout the novel as he continues to wanted power and be strong. In the novel, Ged runs into a problem of growing up: having the responsibility of doing something he do not want to. Like some of his duties are not as important, like helping his father as a black smith and take the family skills, instead of wondering off into the woods. “There was not much work to be got out of Duny. He was always off and away in the woods” (Le Guin, pg. 22). But later in life, Ged finds his own duty as a person and does his job, even if he does not take pride of his job, or not capable enough to do the job. As Ged is becoming of a man, he learns and understand the idea of responsibilities and take on all these, and not wondering off into the woods searching for power. When Ged left Ogion to attend the school of Wizard, he met the principle Nemmerle, who loved and treated all his student good, especially Ged. When Ged was in school and challenge Jasper in a summoning spell and Ged’s spell summoned the evil shadow, Nemmerle had to fix the problem Ged had started, “To check the ungoverned spell and drive off the shadow from Ged, Nemmerle had spent all his power, and with it his bodily strength was gone. He lay dying” (Shmoop Editorial Team). Even though it was not Nemmerle’s problem, he felt as if it was his duty to protect and defend