Realism is accepting a situation as it is instead of thinking what it could have been. Realism can be found throughout the book The Good Earth some of the realism is Wang Lung had a arranged marriage not true love, there are slaves, and Wang Lung grows up in a poor family and poor people are all over the earth. In the late nineteenth century China ''romantic love was no part of what a husband and a wife expected in a marriage". Wang Lung, a farmer, obtains his wife, O-lan, from the house of a wealthy Chinese family, the House of Hwang. Wang Lung and O-lan continue their lives as husband and wife, but never is there any mention of romance or love between the two. This type of relationship is a result of the arrangement of the marriage and the purpose of a marriage to the Chinese. Arrange marriage was very common in china. It was common in america and still common in india. When they got married they could not say anything about their face .
Wang Lung and his father are super poor. His house is made of the earth with holes in the wall that he can't fix. He measures out every drop of water and every leaf of grass for fueling the oven. Since he is so poor he hasn't took a bath since he was a little kid. The first time he took a bath was when he went to get married. O-lan was a slave for the House of Hwang. Her family sold her to the house of wang when she was ten years old. They sold her because they didn't have any money to eat. The good thing about it was that she get a talent and that talent was cook good and work hard. The bad thing about it was that she had to work super hard. Also In the house of Wang you would get abused both verbally and physically by her slave owners. When men came over to the house of Wang they would rape the pretty girls. It was good that Olan wasn't pretty. In china the women were the slaves not the men and it was very common. Slavery was all over the china and america had them but american there were black men and women that were slaves.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 1892 - 1973. Pearl Buck was born in the hills of West Virginia to the parents of Chinese missionaries. ... Pearl Buck had been writing since the age of six. ... (141) She also opened the Pearl S. ... Her 1931 novel, The Good Earth became the best-selling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and Howells Medal in 1935, and adopted as a major MGM film in 1937. ...
The Good Earth The Good Earth, written by Pearl S. Buck, was a book about the typical chinese lifestyle. ... Wang Lung had an uncle who was a selfish good for nothing but yet he could never turn his back on him. ... Buck's expieriences in China inspired her to write this book. ... Buck wrote about sexism in china and how it affected the majority of women. ...
In The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, many themes are illustrated throughout the story. ... The good earth has provided Wang Lung and his family with life. ... "From the produce, Wang Lung in this good year had a handful of silver dollars over and above what they needed." ... The earth is very important to them and this is one of the main themes of The Good Earth. ...
The Good Earth is the story of human struggle against the indifferent forces of temptation. As defined in Webster's New World Dictionary, temptation is to induce or entice, as to something immoral. Temptation plays a sizeable role throughout the novel. Wang Lung is enticed a myriad of time to com...
The Good Earth I was completely shocked after reading Pearl S. Buck's remarkable novel, The Good Earth. ... Pearl S. Buck did an outstanding job on the books vivid description of the characters, emphasizing the importance of Wang Lung's land, and it's sense of dramatic reality. ...
In Pearl S. Buck's novel, The Good Earth, the author implies that pre-Revolutionary Chinese people feel social obligations of filial piety. ... Then, the uncle has Wang Lung lead him to the father's bed, where he, "lifted the quilts and felt the good cloth...and...was asleep.."... Wang Lung lost some of his good land, and thus, he also lost a portion of his income in order to bury his elder father in a good site. ... In "The Good Earth," characters show their obligation to the Confucian philosophy of filial piety. ...
