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
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