The Good Earth is set in rural China in the early 20th century. During the novel, readers are transported from the fields with Wang Lung, working in the hot and boiling sun, to sitting with O-lan in her bedroom beside her coffin in her final hours. Pearl S. Buck describes how the characters deal with situations including floods,drought,death and much more. For example, readers can picture the struggle and the resilience the Wang family experiences during the period of the drought. Since their land was so parched and the family was so starved, they had to move to the south to make a better life for themselves because what they were experiencing at the time was very difficult.…
Imagine you were an actor/actress in an important movie. You win an Oscar for your part in the movie, but then it is all taken away in an instant all the pictures articles magazines removed from stores off the internet they even shutdown your social media pages for no reason. No one wants to be forgotten even if all they did was feed a homeless person they would want at least one person to remember. Do you think should we celebrate everyone’s achievements? Zheng He, was a Chinese explorer, who’s exploration documents were almost removed from history when the Chinese burned all of them.…
The novel celebrates the image of human beings working within nature and nature being transformed by human work. This relationship between man and earth is defined when Wang Lung, “had no articulate thought of anything; there was only this perfect sympathy of movement, of turning this earth of theirs over and over to the sun, this earth which formed their home and fed their bodies and made their gods,”(Buck 27). His passion for land was reflected into his hard work, and he reached a peak of harmony. However, as the novel…
The idea of a perfect world is very complex and often confusing to understand; it becomes simpler to imagine such world if suffering existed within it. However, if a perfect world contains suffering, it then becomes flawed. In Ursula Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, the narrator struggles with the problem of creating a realistic ‘perfect world’, and as a solution she has created two contradictory worlds in which the existence of one is dependant on the other. the narrator provides many versions of Omelas when she changes details about the city, however, these types of worlds seem to fall into two opposing worlds based on the concept of good versus evil.…
I am a Chinese, so I think Chinese cultures are my culture. And one of those Chinese culture, I think is very important to me and each Chinese person. This culture is filial. First, filial is a great culture have inherit for thousands year. Thousands year ago, many Chinese researcher had already started to research what is filial.…
Andrew Braaksma talks about how challenging it was for him working at a factory over the summer. He mentioned that the hard work he put into the job was not necessarily worth it because of how small his pay checks seemed. Hard work such as, rigid work schedules, the mass amounts of paperwork, meeting quotas, and multiple issues they had with the factory's machines. He says "My friends who take easier, part-time jobs never seem to understand why I'm so relieved to be back at school in the fall or that my summer vacation has been anything but a vacation. "(paragraph. 3).…
“Being rich has nothing to do with where you live and the digits in your income, yet instead everything to do with how much you can appreciate the moments in life when the smallest things hold the greatest value” (Unknown). In East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Adam Trask and his half brother Charles grow up with a dark rivalry between them. Since Adam knows the struggle of having a brother, he should understand the difficulties that his twin sons, Cal and Aron, face. With help from Lee, the servant, and the Hamilton family, Adam has a journey of raising his sons alone after his wife, Cathy, is consumed by madness. Throughout the story, money plays a major role in determining what true wealth is, obscuring deeper desires and distinguishing a successful life from an unsuccessful life.…
Three Chinese Philosophies Bailee Cook Have you ever wondered why or how China came to what it is now? Well, a lot of it has to do with the three Chinese philosophies which are Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism. All of these philosophies are basically completely different from each other, but they were all very popular in Ancient Chinese history. In the end, the three Chinese philosophies impacted Ancient and modern China in many different ways. The first major Chinese philosophy was Confucianism.…
What is moral and immoral is widely discussed upon in our ever changing world, and one’s perspective on the subject may change as their life progresses and they learn new truths about theirs and others’ lives. This concept of morality and how one’s view can change on the topic throughout their life is shown greatly through Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem and plenty of her other works. Anthem depicts a future in which the word “I” is no longer known. Every person is shown as a slave to the government and no one has any civil liberties. One’s life in this dystopian setting falls along the lines of this, birth, go to school, have the government choose your career (which you may never have any other profession nor life in general than what the government…
Humans are one of the most violent and selfish species on Earth. In the book A Short History of Progress, written by Ronald Wright, it explains how the past’s consequences still affect people today. If humans do not change the way they act soon, they will live with the consequences and so will the future generations. Violence and greed are some of the things that have brought empires down and it can soon happen today, Wright believes that humans are the “last ship sailing.” Through time humans have been able to learn by trial and error, but today, we are not able to make mistakes without great consequences.…
What would the outcome on the island be if the Confucius showed up on the island? Would it have been better or worse, would the boys behaved better or worse? When Piggy and Ralph say something they know that it will affect other people in certain ways. If they want anyone to do something instantly then they would do it. When Jack treats other people poorly or is bossy towards other people it affects them.…
Do you know who you truly are? That is the question that Gene Luen Yang tries to explain in his graphic novel “American Born Chinese.” The story follows three different characters and their journey to knowing who they are. Each journey is different, but each is linked by the central theme of self identity. These three characters all have to go on a Hero’s Journey.…
Human nature is neutral. When a baby is born, they are born as a blank page, an individual that has not been tainted by the cruelty found in this world, but also somebody who has not been exposed to the profound goodness that can be revealed among individuals. No baby comes out the womb looking to murder and eat another being, however overtime that child is taught that eating an animal is acceptable and beneficial for their overall health. This example is especially stimulating when setting a baby down for dinner, if you put a fruit on one side, and a chicken on the other, which side might become that child’s dinner? When the option is entirely up to the child?…
In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, he uses many different topics and literary devices to convey to the reader social issues that are occurring in the 1930s and how they compare to the new society formed in the State World. Some of the elements that Huxley uses to describe the government control over the citizens by brainwashing and drug dependency are precise diction, vivid imagery, and figurative language. He then uses these devices to show the moral and cultural decay in the New World. The theme of Brave New World is the pursuit of happiness through extreme ideals and use of drugs which helps play a factor in aiding the reader to understand what social issues are occurring throughout the novel.…
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a darkly satirical view of the future of the world engineered through a genetically predetermined caste system. He describes a world where individual rights are sacrificed for the well being and function of society as a whole, and strong emotions and personal ties are therefore removed. People do not have families or lovers that would incite strong emotional feelings. The whole purpose is to create a productive society, and this is accomplished by giving each individual person the happiness that they are designed for. However, a plethora of ethical problems arise when viewed by outsiders to this way of life.…