Enter your text here...Nearly a century after Pearl S. Buck wrote The Good Earth, most of us no longer live in Wang Lung’s world.We may never plow a field, survive a famine, take a concubine, or watch our children debate whether to sell the land that fed generations of our family.And yet the questions beneath Wang Lung and O-lan’s lives have hardly … [Read more...] about The Good Earth: 5 Modern Stories About Love and Sacrifice
Wang Lung
The Good Earth: What Scholars Reveal About Wang Lung and O-lan
IntroductionWhat happens when we stop asking whether Wang Lung was right or wrong and begin asking why he became the man he became?Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth is often remembered as a story about poverty, land, family, and the dangers of wealth. Yet beneath Wang Lung’s rise from struggling farmer to prosperous landowner are harder questions about human … [Read more...] about The Good Earth: What Scholars Reveal About Wang Lung and O-lan
The Good Earth: Did Wealth Destroy What Wang Lung Loved?
IntroductionWhat happens when a man spends his entire life trying to protect his family from poverty, only to discover that prosperity brings dangers he never expected?Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth begins with one of the simplest human desires imaginable: Wang Lung wants enough.Enough food.Enough land.Enough security that his family will never again fear … [Read more...] about The Good Earth: Did Wealth Destroy What Wang Lung Loved?