Part 1 of Essay
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 agricultural specialist who taught American far ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... Wang Lung was successful in gaining just enough surplus to become a stable farmer. During this first year, they had a son and a “handful a of silver dollars over and above what they needed” (32). Soon later they had another son and a daughter. During this time, Wang Lung purchases some land from the House of Hwang, where O-lan was once a slave. With this extra land, he would be able to make enough silver from his next harvest to join both pieces of his land. All hope ends once famine drives the family f ....