Got Hazia?  Justin Fike '07 English 65, Fantasy, Brown
University, 2003  Ursula K. LeGuin in The Farthest Shore,
presents a world in which the skewed powers that govern the
world differ from what we experience today. Mages likened to
Gods make the normal everyday people of the world, affected by
the circumstances, seem insignificant:  The people for all their
restless activity, seemed purposeless. [66]  The procession and
termination of the story alters that view however by presenting
the reader with an unlikely hero. Sparrowhawk and Arren travel
to Hort town where no magical or mystical force affects the
land. While there they meet a man who goes by the name of Hare.
Having taken a type of drug called Hazia, Hare reaches a place
he wishes Sparrowhawk would go. While convincing Sparrowhawk to
follow his directions, Hare speaks of "two kinds of men"(69).
His statements denote that "people without power are only half
alive. They don't count. They don't know what they dream;
they're afraid of the dark"(69).   1