Buck, was a book about the typical chinese lifestyle. This story is about a poor man strugglling to escape the horrors of poverty. The farmer's name was Wang Lung and he was also in search of a spouse. The only spouse he could find was a women named O-Lan who was once a slave. Even though O-Lan was not attractive, yet she was still capable of doing everything else. The book shows the process of how Wang Lung Recieved his fortune. He gained his abundence through stealing jewerly from the south to buy land in the north. Wang Lung became incredibly wealthy and decided to save his forune rather spend it all. This book broke the typical chinese stereotype. A lot of people admired this book because of its' truthfulness but many asians dispised it because is showed the ugly side of thier society.
Many things in this story were based on things Buck saw and expirenced in China. For example: in the book, Wang Lung's first daughter was displayed as a mentally disabled girl that counld not speak. In reality this was based on Buck's own daughter Carol who also suffered a similar disablity. This story also showed the chinese style of conduct to family. Wang Lung had an uncle who was a selfish good for nothing but yet he could never turn his back on him. Mainly because in asian culture, you are taught to always respect your elders and family. When famine had risen in the north, Wang Lung decided to move to the south thinking he would have a better chance to become wealthy. Because the north and south hated each other immensly, Wang Lung had a very hard time surviving in the south. After stealing all the jewelry from the south, Wang Lung moved back to the north where he bought more land to farm. People say that during this time of famine many resorted to cannbalism. This book displayed how Wang Lung went from a gracious and land loving man to a rich and concieded old man.
Wang Lung was very vain about his image as a rich person, so vain that he lost part of himself.
The piece that I feel illustrates this quality of the man is "Earth's Answer." ... This poem has the themes of good versus evil, in my opinion, and that is why it is such a powerful poem. The first stanza creates the image of the earth being in a state of sadness. ... Previously, the image was only an overview of the whole earth. ... There is no joy left, it seems, on the earth. ...
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In The Good Earth by Pearl S. ... The good earth has provided Wang Lung and his family with life. ... This shows how much they depend on the earth and if the earth did not bear vegetation, they would die of hunger. ... "From the produce, Wang Lung in this good year had a handful of silver dollars over and above what they needed." ... The earth is very important to them and this is one of the main themes of The Good Earth. ...
The Good Earth, written by Pearl S. ... Life, death, wealth and sorrow all come from the earth. The earth is life. ... Although through all Wang Lung's attempts to make himself powerful and rich so others think highly of him, he still has a little of the poor peasant left in him, as he returns home to the good earth to die. ... The Good Earth is able to show the obvious differences in the cultures, social structure and relationships one would have living in China. ...
In the book, The Good Earth, the writer Pearl S. ... He changes from a loving, hard-working man of the earth to a proud, careless, insensitive lord. ... After all he was a good man. ... Wang Lung was a good man, incapable of killing anyone. ... "He took his life from the earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver," (p.35). ...
The Good Earth is the story of human struggle against the indifferent forces of temptation. As defined in Webster's New World Dictionary, temptation is to induce or entice, as to something immoral. Temptation plays a sizeable role throughout the novel. Wang Lung is enticed a myriad of time to com...
