The Good Earth Character Analysis

Are you sympathetic or unsympathetic towards a character’s dilemma or difficult decision? Why? I am extremely sympathetic towards the dilemma that was going on with the Chinese people in the famine. I feel bad for them because they didn’t have any money or food. They were so hungry that they ate each other at times, even their children. It was such a struggle for them every day of their lives during the famine. People didn’t have food and were rapidly becoming sick; children were being born with physical problems and weren’t being born healthy.
Imagine if you saw your mom or dad eating your brother or killing your sister because there’s not enough food to support more people. How would that make you feel? Imagine having no food and having
Why? If I could change the outcome of The Good Earth I would make it so that Wang Lung doesn’t die as fast and rather buries his sons and he dies at the end. I would like to do this also because I’d like for the land to stay how Wang Lung wanted it. I didn’t like the part that the kids decided to sell the land; which is why I would rather have Wang Lung live longer and bury his own sons and daughters. Here is the part that I would like to change. [Wang Lung heard his second son say in his mincing voice, “This field we will sell and this one, and we will divide the money between us evenly…” But the old man heard only these words, “sell the land,” and he cried out and he could not keep his voice from breaking and trembling with his anger, “Out of the land we came and into it we must go-…” “If you sell the land, it is the end.”] I think the kids should have taken the land and cultivated it just like Wang Lung did. I would have liked this better because it would have ended in a happy ending. I think the book was sad enough with things going the way Wang Lung wanted. Wang Lung put so much work into his land and should at least have had his land how he wanted it when he passed