The book The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is a good example of how life goes up and down. In our lifetime, we hit bumps along our journey to the end of the road. Wang Lund, the main character has to survive in the world as a poor farmer in china. Wang Lund is married to O-Lan a kitchen slave from the House of Hwang. O-Lan helps Wang through all of Wang Lung’s life. Wang Lung goes through the ups and downs in life, just like all of us all around the world. In the Beginning of the book, it's starts
The novel The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck was published in 2005 by Simon and Schuster Inc. The story follows Wang Lung through his development from penniless to prosperous within his lifetime. It explores the alluring call of money and status that eventually changes the very morals that Wang Lung has clung onto so desperately for the first several years of his life. Wang Lung begins to shift into an undesirable persona due to the temptation that wealth holds; this process begins with his first expedition
Renowned author Pearl S. Buck was born in 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her childhood as well as nuptial life was spent in China in which she obtained crucial material that would later inspire her novels upon life in China; the impoverished society she resided in allowed her to truly glimpse the struggles of the common man as well as the aristocratic society. With the publication of her second novel, The Good Earth, Buck gained recognition through the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal. Buck