Summary Of A Wizard Of Earth Sea

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A wizard of Earth Sea is a fiction novel written by an author named Ursula K. Le Guin born in 1929 managed to publish her first fiction novel in 1968 whereby she takes a young boy who seems to be named Dunny by his mother whom he lost at a very young age then to be called Ged known as Sparrow hawk as for always seen with birds around him, that will one day become one of the greatest and most powerful wizards people will know of. This book mainly talks about the experiences this young boy will face in his teens including all the troubles he will have to solve and how he reacts and behaves along with those experiences, then starts to talk about how he becomes and how much he starts to learn when growing up. Le guins aim from this book is not …show more content…

She knew of dark and some other magic yet she only taught him simple magic as she herself didn’t have enough knowledge because of living in a village. Therefore this tells us that in order to learn more one must seek for new and more knowledge from more experienced teachers. Ged at a young age have always been proud and reckless, always rushing to learn and show more of his talent never realizing or putting in mind of the consequences coming. Just as mentioned he have always been a rushing seeker for more to be learned, he then learned some weather tricks from some wandering weather workers which came in handy for creating a fog and defeating the villages enemies when his people were under attack of the kargads. True that this taught him new tricks and helped him when needed on the other hand by creating the fog he learned, he fell into a coma which brings us back to the fact of him not putting the consequences of his actions in …show more content…

Ged here learns many other magical tricks and many other lessons. For instance he learns about changing and illusions as well as the fact that naming and names will play a big role in his journeys. Ged studies with nine masters whereby each and one of them teach him something unique for example the master namer who teaches naming and names teaches him about the idea of balance and that balance is very important and must be kept in mind as illustrated that if he causes rain somewhere drought may be caused somewhere else. Yet ged doesn’t really pay attention to that advice which again shows how that even though he was smart he was sometimes reckless, eager, and too proud. As a competitor with jasper ged always tries to proof he’s so much more powerful and jasper can’t be like him instead of learning from his old master and experiences that always trying to show off with the powers in hand won’t be the solution to prove you’re the strongest in fact he could have observed from jasper and learned from him yet he always competed which did have a very negative affect on ged and his studies. Therefore the role of learning and teaching in here would be that yes competition may help you succeed in doing what you aim for yet getting addicted to it may lead to your failure at a particular period of

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