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  • Lung's Land
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    I was in a complete daze after reading Pearl S. Buck's remarkable novel, The Good Earth. It was somewhat hard not to stop what I was doing afterwards and try to put myself in the characters's hoes and visualize everything that happened in the book. I was so taken by the plot that I remember not wanting to put down the book till I knew what happened next in one of the conflicts in the story. Considering my reaction to it when I first got the book and my reaction to it now, you would really think ...
  • Wang Lung
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    # Quotes / Responses Page #1 "There was a woman coming to the house. Never again would Wang Lung have to rise... at dawn to light the fire. He could lie in his bed and wait. 2 This quote shows the reader the kind of role the woman was supposed to have in her family. She was to do all of the housework, cooking... Basically she takes care of the man's every need. 2 " 'Come here, slave,' said the old lady carelessly. 'This man has come for you. ' " 13 Female children were often sold as slaves to ri...
  • Sums Up The Entire Novel
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    The Good Earth Essay The Good Earth by Pearl Buck provides an excellent form of archetypal structure. It shows how nature is clean and pure, while the mechanistic world is corrupt and evil. There are many ways that it can be proven, yet only three are really stressed throughout the novel. The three stressed throughout the novel the entire time are, nature providing, money corrupting, and how the law of the land is the only right way. That was why, in The Good Earth, the archetypal structure, nat...
  • Few Themes Of The Good Earth
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    In The Good Earth, which was published in 1931, Pearl S. Buck displays the cycle of human life through the story of a Chinese man named Wang-Lung. In this Pulitzer Prize winning novel, a Chinese man frees himself from the bonds of poverty and rises to wealth and lordship. The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, the Howells Medal for Distinguished Fiction a few years later and also earned its author the Nobel Prize in literature in 1938. Pearl S. Buck is one of the most successful Chinese ...

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