Wang Nian Zu: Who's To Blame?

Wu was not content with being one of the emperor’s consorts and her hunger for power drew her to extreme measures. As Wu’s status with the emperor rose, she decided that in order to remove Wang from the role of empress, she must ‘contrive a suitable excuse’ for the emperor to demote his principal consort. An opportunity arose when Wu gave birth to a daughter whom Empress Wang often played with, as she had no children of her own. Wu ‘smothered the infant’, blamed it on Wang so Kao-tsung had her removed from the position of empress. This is the first example of Wu using tactics as ruthless and cruel as killing her own child to achieve power. From then on Wu manipulated many into helping her ascend the throne and killed those who opposed her. She took advantage of power hungry middle class officials with high ambition who would assist her in gaining power. Wu promised (and came through) on rewarding these officials, however once they were no longer of use she was ‘quick to abandon them… [or have them]

The main character of the novel, Wang Lung, was a poor young peasant who lived with his father. He worked everyday in the fields harvesting goods and he enjoyed

In the Qin state, a growing leader was about to prosper. Legends says a wealthy merchant who is acquainted with King Zhuangxiang of Qin came to him one day in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BCE). His name was Lu Buwei. On that day, Lu Buwei had arranged with the king to meet his lovely wife, Zhao Ji. As soon as they met, the King Zhuangxiang of Qin felt an attraction to her. Eventually, Zhao Ji became the mistress of King Zhuangxiang of Qin and in 259

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

This book started with Wang Lung introducing himself and how his life is like. He lived with his father mostly because his father was really sick and Wang Lung had to take care of him. His father was a traditional and moral man. He did not approve many things that went on in the house. Later on, he went to the house of the Huang’s and got a slave to be his wife. Her name was O-Lan. O-Lan was a slave and she was treated really terribly most of her life, even when she married Wang Lung. Together they had 5 children: three boys and two girls, each with very different characteristics.

In this rags-to-riches novel, Wang Lung rises from an obscure farmer living in poverty to a famous landowner living in luxury. As his story begins, Wang Lung is a poverty-stricken farmer who is setting out to collect the slave, O-lan, who has been purchased to serve him as wife. He is so poor that to him drinking tea,”Is like eating silver.” (Buck 4). He was so poor that he has never been asked for money by a beggar till the day he went to

His name was Eric Goldstaub and he said that if it wasn’t for Feng-Shan Ho his family would all be dead (Dempsey 1). It was not just the children but their children and their children’s children would not even exist if it weren’t for what Feng-Shan Ho did. The things you do can affect you and the people you have helped. Even the people closest to Ho were impacted.

Initially, Wang Lung keeps his values while living in the city-- he beats

Sooner or later the second son turned into Wang’s personal Steward what it came to the money. The third son resembles the strength of Wang Lung. The third son fought for what he wanted and what he thought was right, and that is what Wang Lung did for his family the entire time. Wang Lung kind of drove his third son away, because he became begrudged when he realized he was too old for Pear Blossom, and his youngest son was the perfect age for her, and so he showed his superiority to the third son and the son got mad and left. Now that Wang is wealthy he has become ignorant about it and he has started spending money recklessly. His sons took on that bad habit and now they arn’t used to living like how Wang lived growing up. Wang is different from his sons because his father raised him the right was and thought him that he isn’t better than everyone else and that he should work for his money but now his sons are lazy because their father raised them to be lazy and get stuff handed to them. When Wang Lung grew up he had to grow up in tattered and worn clothes and growing up his sons always had nice new clothes, besides the

Wang Lung’s uncle’s son returns to the house from the war that he went to in the north to become a soldier. Well now he is the head of his unit and they are assigned to live in Wang Lung’s village for days, months, or even years.

On the other hand, having been away from home for ten years at the time of his father's death, the third son, also known as Wang the Tiger, has become a soldier, whom is planning to break away from the warlord and establish his own dynasty in the north. This son even dreams of ruling the entirety of China, during the period of political instability and wars between the war lords in the north and the south.

When Mr. Li, the village leader, learned of the release of Wang Hou’e he found out that she had a 13-year-old son (Zhang Xuping). For some unknown reason, whether its pettiness or hatred, Mr. Li had Xuping expelled from school a day before his mother was released from prison (Crime and Punishment”). Once Xuping was expelled he worked as a waiter for 2 years before he drifted into petty crime at the age of 15. He was arrested in 2005, when he acted as a look out for a group of thieves.

Li Kwang was debating to ride the saddle, and he had made up an excuse to ride, saying that he needed to test it. After he got on his horse, it bolted off into the mountain, never stopping. It was quite evident that there was some kind of ‘karma’ going on.

She loved how he returned the extra fish he caught to the sea, telling them, “Tomorrow, friends. I will catch you tomorrow.” Most of all, she loved the end of each day. With a good night kiss to her forehead Old Wu would say, “Remember me, little fish, when you take your place in the Sun King’s court.”

Emperor Hongwu grew up as a farmer, and so knew firsthand that peasants were enslaved and lived in poverty