Comparing O-Lan And The Earth In Pearl Buck's The Good Earth

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Does the reader ever feel like they are connected to nature or the earth? Some may think that they have some small things in common with the earth or nature. While others feel like they have nothing in common with the earth. Well in The Good Earth O-Lan has many things in common with the earth, most of them she probably doesn’t even think about at all. In this novel by Pearl Buck, O-Lan symbolizes the earth.

Both O-Lan and the earth are very simple, they take what they can get and give everything they have to help. Both of them were good to Lung and helped him through everything. Though they hindered him at some points, they both made up for it with all the good things they did for Lung. Both the earth and O-lan helped Lung to become great

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