The Good Earth

humble, hardworking farmer tends to his land under the scorching sun every summer and in the freezing winters, he feasts on the crops his land has produced for him. Every day he wakes up early to take care of his father and his land. The novel, The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck, begins on the most important day of this farmer’s life: Wang Lung’s wedding day. After this day, Wang Lung will no longer have to work alone in his fields, for he will have O-lan, his wife, to help him. Soon after 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.…

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…

The Good Earth Essay The remark that The New York Times says about Pearl S. Buck's novel The Good Earth holds quite a bit of truth in today's world. There comment implies mainly one thing. All tragedies and grievances of life can be experienced in any time or place. In one way or another whether the middle ages or ancient egypt. The Good Earth answers and explains these points through the story of a poor farmer named Wang Lung who loves land like a mother loves her baby. He encounters many…

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…

to the environment. In The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck there are many descriptions of the way women play a role in society. The Good Earth is a novel about a Chinese farmer living in a rough patch of his life when all of a sudden his life turns around and look up for him and his family. He lives with his wife, O-lan, who birthed him three sons and two daughters, his concubines Lotus and Pear Blossom, and his needy uncle and his family. All of the women in The Good Earth such as O-lan, Lotus, and…

What is love? What in China shaped love in the 1930’s? Love is loyalty, money, yin and yang(balance), and pride. Loyalty is very important in all relationships and it can also be followed by tradition. Loyalty is shown throughout The Good Earth, mostly by Wang Lung because he believes in and values tradition very much. “I cannot cut it off without asking my father!”(11) Wang Lung shouts to the barber referring to his hair being cut off. Wang Lung didn’t want to cut off his hair because he had…

Reader Response I The opening chapter of The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck begins with Wang Lung discussing with his father how he wants his home to look presentable before he sets out to purchase a wife. Reading the dialogue between Wang Lung and his father on how his wife should not be an attractive woman was compelling. Wang Lung’s father asks “And what will we do with a pretty woman? We must have a woman who will tend the house and bear children as she works in the fields, and will a…

Setting: (describe each setting and its importance) The settings of novel The Good Earth were inspired by Buck's experience in the impoverished society of China in which she gained valuable insight on the life of those who survival were dependent upon the annual harvest. They consist of the main protagonist's house, the Southern city of Kiangsu, and the House of Hwang. Wang Lung's house in Anhwei in which he resided with his parents prior to his marriage and to which he returned after seeking…

Chinese in Nanjing were much more influenced by Western ideas than the Northern farmers, and Pearl Buck began to write about the young people's conflicts between the old and new ways of culture ("A Guide to Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth"). When her second novel, The Good Earth, was published in 1931, she gained recognition due to its emotionally impactful storyline and in 1938, Buck became the first American female to win a Nobel Prize. Concurrent with her…