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throughout the text. At the beginning of the story, Wang Lung presents his grandfather’s current physical state. His grandfather is very old and dependent upon others, and as his son, Wang Lung’s duty is to care for the old man throughout his old age until he dies. Wang Lung takes care of him throughout the rest of the story until he dies. “He had to lit the fire, boiled water, and poured the water into a bowl and taken it into the room where his father sat upon his bed, coughing and fumbling for his shoes upon the floor” (page 3). This idea that obligation to one’s family is important is also shown with the relationship between Wang Lung and his wife, O-lan. When O-lan was having her first child no matter what she went out into the fields to help Wang Lung. Even after they became rich and hired servants and slaves to the house, O-lan still cooked for the family and sewing their own garments. In contrary of Wang Lung, he went out to…

I agree with the decision of O-lan, considering their circumstances and cultural norms, because in their culture the girls are not given the same treatment as the boys are. So if they would be able to eliminate one mouth they would not have to worry about feeding one more person, also Wang would have done the same thing because he is already so stressed out with feeding 5 months, not counting his. If one mouth was to be added, he would have not been able to handle the pressure, and that kind of…

to work for something rather than having it handed to you. It also states, “Wang Lung was healed of his sickness of love by the good dark earth of his fields and he felt the moist soil on his feet and he smelled the earthy fragrance rising out of the furrows he turned for the wheat (212 Buck).” Even when he has laborers to do all the work for him he still goes out in the fields to work. That is true work ethic right there- even when he is rich he still feels the need to work for what is his. …

Rodolfo Martinez The Good Earth Analysis Pre AP English 9, Period 4 Ms. Rouse 14 November 2015 The Good Earth Hard work, determination, and never giving up, end up with good things in the long run. This is shown in The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, and it takes place in 1800 to early 1900 in China. A poor young farmer named Wang Lung gets ready to get married. He marries a poor slave girl named O-Lan from the House of Hwang because at the time he couldn’t afford to get a better one.…

As humans grow older, it is an undeniable fact that they will die one day. In the novel, Wang Lung is shown depicting remorse and sorrow after the tragic death of his first wife, O-lan, and his beloved neighbor, long-time friend and hard working foreman on his field, Ching. At first Wang Lung seemed content of O-lan with his only disappointment being that her feet were unbound. As money came, he started to view her as more and more so ugly and repulsive only to eventually replace her with a…

Wang Lung and his family go on a journey through satisfying times and awful times. The novel The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is an excellent example of how life is full of surprises. In people’s life, they go through many obstacles to achieve where they want to go. Wang Lund, the main character that has to survive in the world as an underprivileged farmer in China who rises to become a wealthy landowner. In the novel Wang Lung is married to O-Lan a kitchen slave of the House of Hwang. O-Lan…

O-Lan, a not so Dumb and Dull Woman In The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, O-Lan is depicted and seen as by other characters as dumb and dull, but truly she is a smart, thoughtful, and strong woman. O-lan is an independent and strong woman. Her independence was taken for granted, ane she was always strong in both mind and body. O-lan had all her children alone and even when she was rich, she let no one help her. “She would have no one with her when her hour came”(Buck 35) in the beginning of the…

Both the Earth and O-lan are plain and need very little to survive. The Earth and O-lan are simple; they appear plain and undesirable to most men. The Earth symbolizes the back breaking labor in the smoldering heat to the rich, lustful men. Likewise, O-lan is a large, dull woman with unbound feet, the least attractive to men at this particular time. However, beauty does not mean anything. All the Earth needs is a little bit of rain, and it will produce great crops that could make a man wealthy.…

Quipped by singer Judy Collins, “Suffering is the price of being alive.” In the novel The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, Wang Lung, along with his family, goes through life in 1930s China, experiencing tribulation and prosperity. The Good Earth sends a universal message about a life full of struggle, in hopes to thrive and be successful. The book, wasting no time with frivolous love stories or fairytale endings, focuses mainly on the hardships of Wang Lung. A poor farmer, he depends heavily on his…

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…