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The Good Earth: Summary
Pearl Buck’s novel, The Good Earth, takes place in the early twentieth century in China just before the Revolution. Buck lived in China months after she was born until she was 17 and returned to America for college. She soon returned to China to marry John Buck, an American agricu ....
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.... in a city of southern China where they had to beg for just enough to feed themselves. His two sons are raised away from the land and exposed to life on this streets. The sons had less value for the land than their father. Wang Lung grew up with the land- being taught how to farm it, harvest it, and survive off of it. He was able to associate his life with the earth. On the other hand, the sons learned to live by stealing to gain possessions and never understood the importance to land. This later became a factor after they receive Wang Lung’s land. It is evi ....
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