The shortest war in American history is the Spanish-American War, It lasted five months: April 1898 to August 1898. following it came the Philippine- American war for Philippiâ¦nes indepence.
A Wizard of Earthsea is fantasy: it takes place in another world where magic exists and dragons are real. It's a coming-of-age story: Ged grows up from a child to a man. And it's a quest story for most of the book: Ged's major goal from Chapter 4 to the end is to stop his shadow from hurting anyone.
Any genre of fiction can get at truths, of course. Some science fiction and fantasy do so, and are serious fiction. Some SF and fantasy are escapist. But magical realism is always serious, never escapist, because it is trying to convey the reality of one or several worldviews that actually exist, or have existed.hen it first came into use to describe the work of certain Latin American writers, and then a small number of writers from many places in the world, it had a specific meaning that made it useful for critics.