1. Ged grows up in the course of this novel. What are the qualities that mark him as childish in his early youth? What are the qualities that mark him as adult at the end?
2. What meanings are associated with Ged's Shadow? Why does it flee from him when he begins to pursue it?
3. What happens to Ged and his Shadow at the end of the novel? What does this have to do with his becoming an adult?
4. What are the rules that govern magic in Earthsea? What can magic do and what is impossible using magic?
Why?
5. Ged says that the shining of the stars is the speaking of a long word of which every true name is a syllable.
What does this mean? What.....
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