The Good Earth

In "the earth", Pearl S. Pearl explains the way of life and customs of Chinese through the character of Wang Dragon. She also made it an enviable position for wealthy landlords and showed the rise of simple farmers. At the beginning of the novel, poor farmer Wang Long is preparing to marry O-Lan, a slave purchased from Yellow Courtyard. She is a strong, quiet woman with great wit. She is the assistant of Wang Long throughout the book. A few years later, Wang Long and O - Lan have five children.

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.

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.

Pearl S. Buck is almost based on the Bible. Her work imagines the decline and the flow of life. "The style she has on the" Earth "is based on the legend of the old Chinese story associated with Storyteller (Doyle 33). Bucks style reflects inspiration. Although the story is described by the third person, this is the story of Wang Long, although this may be a way to talk about the character, it is more effective than the first person Wang is a farmer and the vocabulary is limited I will. The story is told, the description of the event is related to Wang Yong. The narrator does not explain the aspect of life that Wang Long would not know Good Earth is a kind of biography. The story is from chief character of young man to his old age in chronological order