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
Every person goes through conflict in their lives. In the novel The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck, Wang Lung is an average man dealing with everyday problems. The story follows Wang Lung as he goes through his wedding day and all the events that ensue. He goes through problems with money, identity, and love. The Good Earth can be related to “in any age in any quarter of the globe” (New York Times). Every person deals with financial stress with it’s ups and downs. Wang Lung eventually grows wealthier
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