The Good Earth

The novel "Earth" is a story about Chinese social life during the Chinese Revolution. Although the story is a novel, some events in the story are real events that were witnessed or experienced by author Pearl Race in Chinese life. The story takes place in China after the town of Nanhsuchou who lived in the south for a while. The main character of the story is Wang Long, a diligent but poor farmer. At marriage and low level stage, Wang Dong and his father decided to marry a cheaper slave than other possibilities.

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.