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The Good Earth
Wang Lung's wife, O-Lan, was formerly a slave in the House of Hwang. Furthermore, from the few comments she made about her life before her marriage to Wang Lung, she was one of the worst-treated...
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Unfortunately, the resolution to Pearl Buck's "The Good Earth" is not a happy one for readers. It might be more true to life than a lot of stories, but that doesn't mean I enjoy depressing endings...
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I think that Buck depicts Wang Lung as a man capable of the greatest of successes and the most humbling of failures. Simply put, both elements are at play. Buck does not skimp on depicting both...
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For the most part, the lives of the women in The Good Earth are far from "good." Buck constructs a vision where the woman of the context really struggles. The critical element to women's lives in...
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Wang Lung approaches the House of Hwang as naive to the world. Wang Lung is not wealthy and does not have much to his name. His initial approach to the House of Hwang is peppered with his own...
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Here are some considerations in an approach to relating what The Good Earth is about: After having read the novel, what themes and ideas resound in your mind? What do reviews on this novel remark...
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The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck, is set China and its protagonist is a poor farmer named Wang Lung. He wants a wife to do the household chores while he works in the fields; however, he is so poor...
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After a still birth from her fourth pregnancy, for her fifth pregnancy, in chapter 17, O-Lan gives birth to twins. Wang-Lung's father declares, "An egg with a double yolk this time!" One is a boy...
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Buck's narrative details the emotional and physical abuse of women. Consider the basic premise that governs the thinking of the characters in the novel. When a boy is born, it is good fortune....
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Wang aptly demonstrates the reality of the eternal link between peasant and land, which is Buck's theme, when he insists that his sons begin field labor at an early age. Wang believes this is the...
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Since The Good Earth is the chronicle of the life of a simple farmer and his struggles for the universal desires of all men; namely, survival, success, and contentment, it lends itself in its...
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In The Good Earth, the cycles of the earth run concomitant to human life; thus, there is a spiritual and moral connection to the land for Wang Lung. Indeed, the earth is "one's flesh and blood."...
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Perhaps the most memorable character in the novel,O-lan is representative of the woman of traditional China. In Chapter 1, When she is purchased by Wang Lung, whose father has cautioned him not to...
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With its epic qualities, Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth traces the struggles, the passions, the desires, and rewards of Wang-Lung and his family during the Ch'ing Dynasty and after the Revolution...
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As Wang Lung grows in wealth, this family that has been historically and traditionally tied to the land, grows away from the land and evolves into a new social class. Wang Lung himself, in the year...
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Wang Lung's father is of a generation who traditionally relied on the earth to provide for its needs. He also belongs to a generation who worked hard in its youth and prime to provide for a family...
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tPearl S. Buck's novel's title, The Good Earth, is itself a personification as the carrier of sustenance and the giver of life. In Chapter 28, Buck continues this use of personification, the...
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Published in 1931, Pearl S Buck's ''The Good Earth'' is about China before the Second World War, and its problems and lives and people. As it is basically an historical novel, it is full of...
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Wang Lung's accumulation of wealth begins when he and Olan travel to the city to escape the famine sweeping across the land. In the city, both Wang Lung and Olan get caught up in a mob that loots...
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Wang Lung is a dynamic character who goes through a dramatic change throughout the novel. At the beginning of the story, he is but a peasant farmer, lucky to have some land to cultivate. He is...
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When Wang Lung discovers Olan's stolen pearls and jewels, he makes her give all of them to him so he can buy more land. Even though he takes the jewels from her, Wang allows Olan to keep two of...
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The time and place of The Good Earth is never explicitly stated, but using certain context clues, the time and place can be very closely inferred. The book opens with a focus on a single peasant...
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When times are hard and Wang Lung and his family are starving, his uncle comes to him with a deal. He had gone into town and made a deal with two men who wanted to buy property at a low cost...
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At this point in the story, Wang Lung has worked hard and scrimped and saved so that he was able to buy a small plot of land from the House of Hwang near the mote. By focusing only on this land...
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Wang Lung and his father are poor wheat farmers who live together in a brick house with a thatched roof and three bedrooms in a rural area of China. Wang Lung's mother died six years ago, and ever...
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Her name is O-Lan. She is the servant of a wealthy man in the village. Wang Lung does not know her when he marries her. His father has arranged the marriage. "With weddings costing as they do...
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The answer to this question can be found in Chapter 5 which is when O-Lan begins to use some of the best lard and flour to make some special cakes. When Wang Lung asks her what she is doing, O-Lan...
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what are several chinese customs, what contrasts do you see between Wang Lung as a farmer & as visitor to thecity - as an intended bridegroom, and what kind of person was Olan and why did she...
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Tradition. When Wang Lung in the first chapter goes into the town to claim his wife, he goes to the barber to make himself more presentable for his first meeting with his future wife. Whilst the...
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The answer to this can be found in Chapter 22, which is when O-Lan tells Wang Lung the reason for his eldest son's strange behaviour as he misses more and more school and comes to behave in a way...
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This is actually one of the more tragic events that occur in this book. After the birth of her latest child in this chapter, when Wang Lung goes into his wife's room to see how she is and how the...
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When Wang Lung goes to the house of Hwang to buy the land. Also when he goes to the Great Tea shop. She is also a slave to Lotus. I'm not sure about the other one. He let him to school in the South.
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In the Chinese culture of the setting of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth, there is more value placed upon boy children as they can help with the land, carry on the family name, and be valuable to...
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In Chapter 5 of The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, Wang Lung declares, "Land is one's flesh and blood." Clearly, then, Wang Lung perceives land as that which sustains all life, for from the land he...
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Having gone from a poor farmer who eked a living from the earth to one who prospered, and then to a starving man who clung to that which had sustained him--his land--selling only part of it in...
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One reviewer wrote of The Good Earth: Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whlo cycle of life: its terror, its passions, its ambition and rewards. Her brilliant novel--beloved by millions...
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Wang Lung is disgusted with his uncle's crooked ways, but has no choice to lend him money because of his familial obligation to him. In traditional Chinese culture, respecting your older family...
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In Chapter 7 of The Good Earth, Wang Lung's third child is born to him and O-lan. But this time, O-lan tells her husband not to get excited because the child is a girl. Hearing this news, Wang...
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In Chapter One of Pearl S. Buck's novel The Good Earth, the reader is introduced to the antagonist, Wang Lung, and his father. Wang Lung is preparing to go collect his bride from the House of...
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The setting in The Good Earth is not specifically named in the novel, but the reader does know that the story mainly takes place in rural China on Wang Lung's farm. The plot of land seems to have...
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In The Good Earth, Wang Lung and O-lan do not fall on hard times through any fault of their own. The farmers in Wang Lung's area are greatly affected by drought, and they cannot sustain themselves...
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Of course, there is no way to know for sure why this practice became popular with so many Chinese. But, to me, there are two major reasons. First, I think it is because this was such a...
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In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck uses several examples of symbolism. The pearls that O-lan places between her breasts, the House of Hwang, and Wang Lung's disabled daughter (the "fool") are all...
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One of the major ones, particularly significant given the title "The Good Earth," is the importance of land and the earth itself in people's lives. The earth is what nourishes Wang Lung and he...
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As Wang Lung and his family work and beg in the city, they encounter many foreigners. The first foreigner whom Wang Lung meets is an American woman who hires Wang Lung to drive her in his...
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Just before Wang Lung and his family leave the city, O-lan manages to steal a heap of jewels from the room of a mansion. She hides them during the journey home, and only reveals them to her...
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With revolution in the air and confusion and fear abounding, the gift of money from the fearful man to Wang Lung contributes greatly to his fortune. For, the next day Wang Lung and his family...
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The tension in the statement is seen in Wang Lung's journey through life. While he and his family are in the city in the south, Wang Lung meets many rich people and he witnesses the open market...
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In The Good Earth, Wang Lung and his family have had to move south to look for food and work. In the city, Wang Lung joins the masses of poor laborers who are also looking for a way to sustain...
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In The Good Earth, Wang Lung and his family have moved south to find food because their land has suffered in the drought. When they get south, Wang Lung takes a job as a rickshaw driver which...
