Dissent

ABSTRACT:

In the second book of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea cycle, the wizard Ged tells the priestess Arha that she has a choice. Stay and serve the nameless grim gods of the tomb, as she has done the last ten years of her life, or walk away from them into the light. Arha knows nothing but the dark, not even her original name. Before a religous order named her Arha, the Eaten One, she was Tenar; she had a family, an identity, choices. She can be Tenar again, but only if she can admit that she's wasted her entire life on false gods, and only if she follows Ged out of the tombs and into a world she has never really known.