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The Good Earth: Summary - Online Term Paper

The Good Earth: Summary

Wang Lung was just a simple farmer in the beginning of this book
and as he got older the more power he obtained, until he became Lord of the
house of Wang. Being a farmer, he relied on the earth to give him and his
family all that they needed to be supported through life. I think this
would have been hard for him to do and I was surprised he was able to do
all that he did.

O-lan was Wang Lung's first wife who was sold to the house of Wang
by her parents and then sold to Wang Lung. Her feet were not bound when
she was little so she had big feet. This allowed her to be able to help
out Wang Lung in the fields. She was strong and had knowledge of some
things Wang Lung did not know how ...

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the book).
I liked the way the Chinese respected and treated their elders. I think we
should try harder to do this here in our culture too.

Wang Lung's uncle was a lazy and greedy man. Wang Lung did not
like him that much and wished that the Chinese custom of paternal relatives
living with their families did not exist. The only thing his uncle was
good for was preventing a local group of marauding bandits from pillaging
the house of Wang because his uncle was an important official in the group.
Wang Lung gets his uncle addicted to Opium which later caused his death.
I think Wang Lung's uncle represented evil in this book and he spread his
evil thoughts throughout his family. I think this was wrong of him to do
but it added to the story of Wang Lung's life.

The uncle's wife had a few bad qualities about herself too. (I
wondered if she gained them before or after she met her husband.) She was
a big gossip and had no control over her son. She was also overweight ...

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Added: 3/7/2004 08:51:06 PM
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