Wang Lung Land Quotes

The novel ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ by Li Cunxin explores various themes. Two of the main themes displayed are perseverance and self-discipline. Perseverance and self-discipline are significant themes in the novel because they were the attributes that enabled Cunxin to amount to great success.

In Pearl S. Buck’s novel, The Good Earth, the protagonist, Wang Lung, starts out as a very poor farmer in China. He marries a slave named O-lan and starts a family with her. Famine soon strikes the town and there is no food to be found anywhere. Wang Lung moves his family South in hopes of finding a job there. Eventually, a group of poor people raid the homes of the rich. Wang Lung and O-lan both join in, getting away with enough gold and valuables to get back to their land in the North. Wang Lung uses this stolen money to buy more land and hire laborers. He quickly becomes one of the richest men in his town. Wang Lung, however, does not know that with great wealth comes great responsibility. His wealth corrupts him and his moral judgements become blurred. Wang

The novel “Legend” by Marie Lu is set in dystopic future Los Angles. Day is the most wanted criminal in the Republic of America; however, behind his criminal façade he is a teenager living a life of poverty trying his best to protect his family. In order to protect his family Day embarks on a hospital heist to gain medication to save his family from the plague currently sweeping the nation. During the heist a Captain of Military named Metias is killed who was the brother of the Republic’s young prodigy, June. June is a young, intelligent soldier of a wealthy family and elite status; after discovering about her brother’s murder she pledges she will find his assumed killer, Day.

Captain Beck, the Nazi soldier billeting in Vianne’s house, compliments Isabelle on her beautiful blonde hair. Out of complete desperation, Isabelle grabs a pair of scissors and cuts off her ponytail. She then hands the dislocated clump of hair to the Nazi general. Captain Beck’s living situation has Isabelle absolutely livid and she is unable to see the innocence that lies in his comment. Her actions are motivated by frustration, as she is undeniably troubled by the war facing her country and wants to make a contribution. Beck’s presence in her sister’s home limits her capabilities and she finds herself unable to take action of any sort. Additionally, she views Captain Beck as a personal enemy as he is the only German soldier she has ever

The historical classic, “The Good Earth”, revolves around the life of Wang Lung, introducing the average Chinese farmer on his wedding day to the slave O-lan. Together, the newly married couple care for Wang Lung’s father and farm the land, prospering from the fruits of their labor. Their early life continues to bring great fortune when they are able to purchase land from the House of Hwang, who O-lan served, and when their first two children are born sons.

In chapter 3 on page 32-38, In the book Wang Lung stated, “ It’s a man child!” Wang Lung and O-lan have their first boy child, the boy made Wang Lung feel very lucky and made him feel that throughout his life. In chapter 16 on pages 144-156,Wang Lung says, “Now what is this thing you have on your body?” O-lan took Jewels and brought them back to there house, and Wang Lung found them and took them from her, except for two peals, making Wang Lung wealthy. The money

The book that was pick for this Essay was Legend by Marie Lu. The main point of this essay is to talk about examples of text evidence and what the texts means. It will also explain the text to where people will actually understand it. Legend is set in dystopian Los Angeles, in a time where North America has devolved into two warring countries The Republic and The Colonies. Legend centers around Day and June, two 15 year olds from opposite sides of the war.

Several people trust Travis’ choices in how to help Neyashing. First of all, trust is shown through how others have confidence in Travis’ actions. After the Brightsands development meeting, numerous individuals- were apprehensive about what was going to happen to Neyashing. Quite a few of them began to look to Travis for answers. The Trowbridges, an older couple living in Neyashing, approach him to show him their trust in his actions. They sit down with him and tell him, “We have a little money […]. Not a lot but we want it used however you decide” (Drew 97). This shows their trust, seeing that they are willing to give Travis all they have to support Neyashing. The fact that the Trowbridges want the money used however Travis decides, illustrates their confidence in both him

Long Walk To Water is about Salva, an 11-year-old boy who used to live in Southern Sudan in 1985. Salva ran away from his home because soldiers destroyed his village. This is the reason why Salva is lucky to find his uncle. First, he was lucky to find his uncle because he brought him to the refugee camp. He was also lucky when he came to America.

“Now if the water had receded...Wang Lung would never have gone again to the great tea shop.”. “[He] might have forgotten the pointed face on the scroll.” (Buck 176) The waters not receding lead Wang to lust, this idleness lead to lust, and his lust lead to trouble at his home. The biggest problem, however, that Wang Lung contends with comes in chapter 13 when they have to live in the south. “Not food enough to feed savage hunger and not cloths enough to cover bone.”. “Wang Lung lived in the foundations of poverty.” (Buck 113). This was his biggest challenge because no food, no clothes, and horrible poverty as he had not previously known. In conclusion Wang Lung has faced dire hardships, but none compare to his time in the

the Queen of France. Esperanza thinks big of Cathy and wants to become her friend. Esperanza wanted to become just like Cathy but she got offended as she said “people like us keep moving in” (13). This quote means that family’s like Esperanza’s are ruining this neighborhood according to Cathy. Esperanza sees a house that reminds her of Mexico. Her friends Rachel and Lucy laugh at her, but Nenny says “Yes, that’s Mexico right/ that’s what I was thinking exactly” (18). Esperanza’s feelings changes towards Nenny and feels the same as her. Louie’s cousin who is a friend of Esperanza’s brother, drives up in a new Cadillac and takes the neighborhood kids for a ride, including Esperanza. They hear sirens and order everyone out of the car. He crashes

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” Dr. Wayne Dyer This quote can relate to the changes in perspective in the novel Legend by Marie Lu because in this book, perspective is an important. Perspective changes major events and heavily influences the actions of each character. If the reader were to ask any character in this novel about a certain subject, they would give different responses due to their views. Perspective impacts the text by building suspense, contrast between characters, and foreshadowing.

Anchee Min’s Red Azalea illustrates that Mao’s Cultural Revolution undermined the Confucian values China was built on by drastically changing the concept of being a junzi to the perfect socialist, therefore making people devote themselves to the communist party. This change is present as Anchee Min is not following the policies of Mao and the Little Red Guard because she could not kill her pet chicken, which goes against Mao’s public health campaign. Anchee reminisces that “he [Committee leader] asked why I was not behaving as a Red Guard should. He asked if I still wanted to be voted as a Mao’s Loyalist.” Notice how Anchee uses the word “head” in the first part of the quote. She uses it to show that she was the leader of the Little Red Guard,

For this assignment I chose Tam Lin as my character because he was one of the reasons Matt was able to escape the Big House. Tam Lin made a connection with Matt and kept that connection throughout the book and he brought many joys to Matt’s isolated life and I believe that’s what being loyal to someone really means.

Despite the multiple decisions that Wang Lung chooses to make, the reader still observes that Wang Lung is a human. This makes it possible to understand Wang Lung’s faults are just him being humanly imperfect. Even if Wang Lung had generated more sound resolutions, perfection would still be unattainable by him. A quote from Liza M. Wiemer states, “For whatever it’s worth, I believe we’re born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.” Wang Lung is comparable to all other mere humans in the idea that no one is perfect and all people make mistakes.