Ursula K. Le Guin grew up learning about the world around her with the air of an unbiased, open-minded adventurer. So when she wrote her book A Wizard of Earthsea she created a world that spoke to what she believed in. Growing up the child of anthropologists Le Guin was exposed to a wide variety of people and places. Especially she was exposed to what they believed in, allowing her to see the depth of their religious, and ritual aspects on the world. During her childhood family travels she discovered that “There has been no culture...that did not tell stories. A world’s stories embody not only its current tensions, stresses, conflicts, and values but also its ability to dream of alternative ways of doing things, alternative political structures,