Good Earth Questions

Good Earth Questions

1. Identify the full and complete setting and why it is important to the the literation? 1890s through the 1930s; Wang Lung and his family lived in a very exciting time throughout history; where It seems like every other year, there's a new war, revolution, or rebellion occurring. During this time, China begins its transition from an imperial to a communist system of government. The first section of this novel is set in Anhwei; a diminutive farming village in east central China, near the Yangtze River. Many of the people that live in this village are unfortunate peasants whom believe in Pantheism, where their major focus is Nature and how it’s the very heart of their spirituality, which is

Select three passages that you feel are important to the literature and representative of the main theme?

• "I shall never sell the land! Bit by bit, I will dig up the fields and feed the earth itself to the children and when they die I will bury them in the land, and I and my wife and my old father, even he, we will die on the land that has given us birth." Chapter 9, pg. 61

• "It did not do in this life to be too fortunate. The air and the earth were filled with malignant spirits who could not endure the happiness of mortals, especially of such as are poor." (pgs. 35-36) Wang Lung's thoughts about his good fortune following the birth of his first

The author situates this general gist during the course of the framework of traditional Chinese Culture. . Wang Lung, a farmer, has an intimate relationship with the earth because he produces his own harvest through his own manual labor. In contrast, the local Hwang family is alienated from the earth because of their wealth, and harvests are produced by hired labor. Wang Lung’s worship for nature is responsible for his kindness, as well as for his successful farming season, and that the immoral wasteful ways of the wealthy are due to their estrangement from the land. A very special part of the theme, shows that human success is temporary, as the earth sustains forever. And as Wang Lung’s fortunes rise, he becomes more distant towards his land and begins to follow the amoral Hwang family, whose fall parallels his own rise. Buck, is warning that the wealth of the Hwangs was the reason that they lost their affection towards the land, additionally hiring laborers and spending their own days in the laps of luxury. Gradually, the Old Master becomes obsessed with corruption and the Old Mistress addicted to opium. Wang Lung then becomes wealthier, and follows the footsteps of the hwang family, hiring laborers, and