Wang Lung and his family move to the South in search of food and work but instead they find vast economic and social differences between the wealthy and the poor. In the city Wang Lung feels as if he were a foreigner even though he is surrounded by people who are in the same predicament as himself. According to Pearl S. Buck Wang Lung is a beggar that can only feed off the scraps of the rich, “ He lived in the rich city as alien as a rat in a rich man’s house…” Similarly, the widespread movement of people going South is very alike to the Syrian refugee crisis going on now in Europe. Many Syrians families including children have walked for miles in order to apply for amnesty in Europe but many European countries like Hungary aren’t very welcome
