2. How do the descriptions of Ged's desire to meet the shadow at sea foreshadow Ged's final battle with the shadow?

3. What purpose does the author have in introducing the Kargad couple?

4. Why does Le Guin have Ged meet the shadow several times? Why is he not able to vanquish it the third time he meets it?

5. What does Ged suggest to Yarrow is the source of all power? In meeting Ged, Vetch makes a remark that (again) suggests an outside force is operating in the story. Does this force appear to have any relationship to the source of power?

6. What power does Yarrow seem to have? How reliable is it?

7. Chapter 10 speaks of Ged and Estarriol traveling "towards the very centre of that balance [of power and doom], towards the place where light and darkness meet. Where is that place?

8. How does Ged finally defeat the shadow? How does he learn what he must know?