The statement, “A comment upong the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe.” said by The New York Times on Pearl S. Buck’s novel, The Good Earth, means that people, all around the world, go through the same or similar experiences as Wang Lung. In this novel, Wang Lung oes thorugh many struggles and success in his life. There are many reasons to why people, from the past and even to the future, livess are similar to Wang Lung’s life. First, the envirement is a reason that relate their lives together. They relate to each other because there are people all around the world that has experienced or is experiencing a natural disaster. Wang Lung adapts to his envirement when it seemed like the world turned
