The Good Earth: Wang Lung’s Changes and Challenges

"If you sell land, that's it" (360). If a person is in the countryside of China at the turn of the century, these words have absolute truth. These clever words quoted by the protagonist Wang Long came from Pearl Buck's novel "The Earth" in the history of enlightenment. In the story, poor young farmers, Wang Long married a strong slave of the yellow family O-lan. Together they face difficulties and victories, prosperity and famine, and the birth of their three sons and two girls (the fifth child died of strangulation).

In the novel "The Earth" written by Pearl S. Buck, Wang Long proved to be a successful person. Wang Dong began as a poor peasant, but he survived the hunger, the drought and the tribal prosperity of the bandits and became rich enough to live in former Huang Gong. Everyone around Wang Long is famous. At the beginning of the novel, Wang Yong is not famous. Everyone thinks he is a poor, innocent farmer. - Good Earth style "Earth" pearl back style is compared with ancient Chinese novels. In fact, this is a simple and straightforward narrative style. There are no complicated techniques such as cutting and consciousness flow. The story went smoothly to the conclusion. For the same reason, there are no complicated subgraphs or subtopics. Wang Long is the central character, and the behavior of all other characters is directly related to him.

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.

He did not live in his land, but the idea of ​​Dragon was swallowed by the idea of ​​"good earth". For Wang Long his land is everything. Because of famine, the only fear of leaving south in the winter is that he is concerned about his land. When Wang Long bought and moved to Yellow Palace, he was still missing and looking forward to his own land. When I thought that his son was not well, he told them they should spend more time on land and agriculture. Before the death of Wang Long, he walked back to the earth and returned to his humble country house where he could inhale that smell into the lungs.