Family Duty in The Good Earth

In "Earth", responsibility of one family in the whole novel has appeared many times. Many of these events in the novel are related to the situation of reality we are today. Therefore, since Buck understood these real circumstances, the reader can basically understand the problem of everyday life. The responsibility of the person responsible for most of us is often on the "earth". Back has provided a magnificent depiction of this concept in many novels.

If there is no "good earth" what will happen to the earth? No Pearl back novels are full of mentioning "good earth". "Good earth" is clearly the central theme of this novel. Throughout the book, Wang Long and his family are related to "Good Earth". Even if the family does not live in this land, the reader can still decide the close relationship between the family and the land. The book began with Wang Long and began to be almost ironic but in the end Wang Long and his family finished in the same place where he began to read the book. . However, the relationship between Wang Dong and the land has changed. At the beginning of the book, Wang Long relies on the land to survive, and finally, he still relies on it to survive, but in a different way.

What is determination and loyalty? Decision is basically a decision made and loyalty is a means of being faithful to someone or responsibility. In the novel "The Earth", Pearl Buck insists that the role of Wang Long depicts him as a loyal man to his family and friends he decided. Wang Long is a rice farmer who got all his wealth through the land. He will escape from poverty and seek to become a respected and rich man. Wang Long made him a favorite person with care and generosity for family and friends. During the drought, Wang Long first offered food to his family and left a little legacy to himself. It is difficult, Wang Long can survive from drought. He ate a few rice at home with the rest of the season. When food was exhausted, when furniture and fixtures were sold, Wang Long decided to make a tough decision. He locked the south and decided to move. There, he wants to find food and money for his family.

When her second novel, the Earth was published in 1931, Pearl S. Buck (1892-1993), with her moving talk about Chinese farmer Wang Long and his family's joy and tragedy It was known all over the world. This novel was an American bestseller and soon translated into over 30 foreign languages; in at least seven different translations, it only appeared in Chinese. Good earth is Broadway 's play and movie. In this book, the back of the pearl was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and won the William Dean Howell excellent fiction medal in 1935. Her international reputation was established when he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1938.