The Good Earth

Reaction to a Significant Passage from The Good Earth “And O-lan in the house was not idle. With her own hands she lashed the mats to the rafters and took earth from the fields and mixed it with water and mended the walls of the house, and she built again the oven and filled the…

I was in a complete daze after reading Pearl S. Buck’s remarkable novel,The Good Earth. It was somewhat hard not to stop what I was doingafterwards and try to put myself in the characters’ shoes and visualizeeverything that happened in the book. I was so taken by the plot that Iremember not wanting to put…

Liu – He was the owner of a grain market and was tired to Wang Lung*sfamily to two marriages. Lotus – Wang Lungs second wife. He admired her for her beauty. Wang Lungs third son – He left to go and fight in the wars toward theend of the book. Old Mistress – She is…

In The Good Earth, by Pearl S, Wang Lung the main character is a poor peasant who buys a wife and moves up in the social ladder during the peasants’ revolution. This story displays many major ideas of ancient Chinese culture, such as the social order, the treatment of women, and the role of the…

Many times those who benefit from their hard work fail to include those who havecontributed to it. Often these contributors are left out when the rewards are reaped. Such is the case in The Good Earth, written by Pearl S. Buck in 1923. The man named Wang Lung received many dividends for his dedication to…