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“The danger that our main character, Ged, is facing is not the great evil Lord who’s sitting on Mount Doom. It’s not an invading army. The opposition, the evil, comes from within the main character himself, and he has to grapple with that on a thematic and philosophical level. This is something that is true of all of these stories, but she just made it explicit, and it’s a wonderful metaphor for adolescence and coming of age: you must master yourself to become a functioning adult. And that is what Ged does.” Read more...
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