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, Pearl S. Wang Lung, a poor peasant, buys a wife and experiences upward mobility during the peasants’ revolution. The story depicts key aspects of ancient Chinese culture, including the social order, the treatment of women, and the significance of family in daily life. The movie begins with a quote that conveys…