As a boy, Ged had some magic ability and saved his village from some invaders by using a bunch of cool mist. He tries to cast this summoning spell to impress a girl but it doesn't work. And he's like, go to the wizard school or you can stay with me. His rival at the school Jasper is going to steal a bunch of Dalmatians for Corella to build in a minute. It's every experiment gone wrong scene. The salient one for me is the Doc Ox scene,. Inspire Man to sure where he was like, you know, raw power, controlling the universe.
Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? If you're a wizard of Earthsea, you can make it smell however you want if you know it's TRUE name. LeGuin's beloved fantasy novel is notable for how it plays both against and into common fantasy tropes, delivering a proper hero's journey without the same Sturm und Drang we've come to expect in the genre.
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