The Good Earth: Summary

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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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