The Good Earth - Strategic Reaction Paper
The Good Earth: Women in My Own Perspective
This novel is one of the well written classics that I had read. This is a novel of Pearl S. Buck, it was published in 1931. She was awarded with Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. One of the elements of this complex tale is the power and force of Women. Even though the main character is a male, the story would not go on without the driving force of women involved in the story.
A stirring and melancholic tale of a Chinese farmer, struggling with life’s ups and downs. The Good Earth brings us to China’s fellows following their fortunes. Wang Lung, a Chinese farmer born and raised poor in their own land seek to find a wife to served both him and his father. He went to the House of Hwang, a royal house and the residence of the Old Lord and the Old Mistress. They are of a family of wealthy landowners, and this is where O-lan his future wife lives as a slave. His father made preparation for him saying that his wife must not be beautiful so rich men will not have interest in her, Wang-Lung is in secret exultation when he first saw O-lan; a woman of a square-body and dull face filled with some sadness yet there was no pock marks on her skin and nor a split on her lip.
Then after their marriage in the Great House, they came home and later that night they consummate their marriage. Days passed and O-lan served the two men properly and well, bringing them their hot teas every morning, cleaning their house, mending their shoes and clothes, preparing the food for them and running everything in the house smoothly. Day after day O-lan helped in the fields and did everything in the house until she was with child already. The first child was born, with O-lan constricted in her labor alone, and due to the Old Mistress’ request they brought the child to the Great House on the second day of New Year with them adorned with their new clothes and robes.
After their visit in the Great House, O-lan had noticed that somehow the wealthy
This novel is one of the well written classics that I had read. This is a novel of Pearl S. Buck, it was published in 1931. She was awarded with Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. One of the elements of this complex tale is the power and force of Women. Even though the main character is a male, the story would not go on without the driving force of women involved in the story.
A stirring and melancholic tale of a Chinese farmer, struggling with life’s ups and downs. The Good Earth brings us to China’s fellows following their fortunes. Wang Lung, a Chinese farmer born and raised poor in their own land seek to find a wife to served both him and his father. He went to the House of Hwang, a royal house and the residence of the Old Lord and the Old Mistress. They are of a family of wealthy landowners, and this is where O-lan his future wife lives as a slave. His father made preparation for him saying that his wife must not be beautiful so rich men will not have interest in her, Wang-Lung is in secret exultation when he first saw O-lan; a woman of a square-body and dull face filled with some sadness yet there was no pock marks on her skin and nor a split on her lip.
Then after their marriage in the Great House, they came home and later that night they consummate their marriage. Days passed and O-lan served the two men properly and well, bringing them their hot teas every morning, cleaning their house, mending their shoes and clothes, preparing the food for them and running everything in the house smoothly. Day after day O-lan helped in the fields and did everything in the house until she was with child already. The first child was born, with O-lan constricted in her labor alone, and due to the Old Mistress’ request they brought the child to the Great House on the second day of New Year with them adorned with their new clothes and robes.
After their visit in the Great House, O-lan had noticed that somehow the wealthy