Many people have a life without meaning and full of tragedy. In Pearl S. Buck’s novel, The Good Earth, Wang Lung, the main character, was a poor farmer who had good fortune for a few years after his marriage, until a drought occurred, which made Wang Lung and his family to the south while a revolution began. The revolution gave a chance for Wang Lung and his family to go back to the north and live as one of the wealthy, but in the end Wang Lung’s sons decided to sell his lands which would end all of Wang Lung’s hard work of achieving land. As a result, the meaning and tragedy of life can take place in any age and in any quarter of the globe.
Wang Lung and his family had to move to the south due to a drought that lasted for months. The drought
Wang Lung and his family had to move to the south due to a drought that lasted for months. The drought