Tehanu | Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. Alfred Kroeber, Ursula K. Le Guin's father, wrote a pioneering study early in his career entitled Handbook of the Indians of California. Several tribes he studied had naming practices, use names and true names, resembling the practices in Le Guin's Earthsea. After reading Kroeber's text, try to determine the similarities in naming practice between the two, native Americans and natives of Earthsea, and what the significance of naming is in Le Guin's fantasy.
2. Several essays in Le Guin's The Language of the Night deal with fantasy, such as "The Child and the...
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