Wang The Tiger: Summary

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.

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.

Pearl S. Buck’s character, Wang Lung, is one who is often acting in immoral ways, but his situation, along with his thoughts, contribute to why the audience can sympathize with him. Wang Lung lives in rural China in the early Twentieth century where certain actions, such as selling children, is acceptable within his culture. His moral ambiguity fluctuates as he conforms to societal views or acts within acceptable bounds in society’s current standards. Throughout The Good Earth, desperate situations cause distressed individuals to become irrational and act immorally. This thematic notion is evident during the most dramatic scenes in the novel.

An individual’s identity is shaped by the way they perceive their connections with others and the world around them. An individual’s approach towards belonging is determined by their shared or personal experiences and through their different cultures and the atmospheres they are placed in. In “Kew Gardens” a short story by Virginia Woolf and the speech “Funeral of the Unknown Solider” delivered by Paul Keating it is shared experiences that influences our view points and identity. However, the play “Six degrees of separation” by John Guare explores personal experiences and the effect they have towards an individual’s ability to belong.

Using money that was embezzled from his father's firm, he checks himself into a fine hotel to live this life long dream. He wraps himself up in all the luxury that he knew would one day come to him. He dressed himself in fine clothes, ate in the dining hall, and went out on a night on the town with a college boy that he met. The atmosphere of living grandly unfortunately collided with the thought of going back to Cordelia Street when his money ran out.

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When his parents came, they admitted that they did not tell him that it was wrong. The emperor dismissed them and thought for a while. Finally, the emperor said that the parents should be in prison instead of Wang. It was their fault they didn’t teach Wang about the law of not stealing.

Finally he becomes king and gets more and more corrupt after each person he kills. Know in my second point I will be talking

Wang Lung heard this when he goes to walk in his land, and the sons do not realize that he is standing there while listening to their conversation. In reaction Wang Lung goes to them and tells them that they should not sell the land because the land is what made them who they were and even when they become poor or they are robbed the land will always stay with them, in spite of everything Wang Lung told his sons, they just stand there in silence. This shows that his sons are not the same people that Wang Lung wanted them to become when they grew up. Wang Lung wanted each of his sons to turn into a really strong, independent person like him because he was the kind of man who respected his land no matter what the situation was. ALthough when Wang Lung became rich he lacked his attention towards island, and he thought that even if he was not the one working on the land, his sons will develop the same attachment to the land as he has. However, when he was busy with Lotus in the Great Tea House, and with the gossip that went around the village something that at least his elder son took from him, was it would be fine to cheat on your wife, if you are rich. Since, his children always saw him as a lazy person who was always with women and had workers to do work for him, even his sons want to do the same and live a relaxed life, since they have so much money bequeathed to them that they would to have to work

It is only when Bao has to leave to fight the foreign devils does he leaves his father and family to fight the foreign devils that are burning cities and harming innocent

The South China Tiger, or other wise known as the Chinese, The Amoy or Xiamen Tiger, was known to roam the temperate forests of southeast China. It is thought that the South China Tiger is the original tiger that all other tiger subspecies are evolved from.

Almost right after the birth of Wang’s second son, O-Lan is pregnant again, but this time, with a girl. During this time, Wang Lung’s uncle is in need of money to support his family. His uncle blackmails him into giving him the silver, otherwise the name of his family will be disgraced. A while after this incident, a great famine rises throughout Wang Lung’s area. The other citizens are starving, and Wang Lung’s uncle begins to spread lies about Wang Lung and his family. These lies bring the hungry citizens into Wang Lung’s house and they begin to cause trouble, but the understanding voice of O-Lan calms them down. Wang Lung decides to head south, since the famine has destroyed his land and his home. Down south, the family finds that they each get a bowl of rice every morning, but they have to beg for their pay. Wang decides that he cannot beg and he takes the job of a ricksha driver. During one of these days, he sees army men pull poor men off the streets, and there is soon talk of war and rebellion. One night, the poor citizens are seen going through the nobles’ houses, and Wang comes across a noble trying to flee. He gets the noble to give him gold, and spares his

already achieve his goal to be a king, he begins to be greedier to not

He didn’t pay money for O-lan and beauty did not matter to him. He was humbled by the knowledge that now she would be the one to care for his father and he would only cultivate his land. Eve the old mistress of the House of Hwang told him she was a fit companion for a farmer. She was brought to his house which had two rooms where he and his father slept; a house made of dirt with thatched roofs. She was a part of his underprivileged lifestyle. Lotus worked at a tea shop where she was cared for by Cuckoo. She was already used to a higher lifestyle than O-lan and was constantly presented with gifts from her visitors. Wang Lung payed over 100 silver coins for her including the robes he bought her and the court he built. When Lotus was brought to the house, Wang Lung was beginning to become a wealthy man. She Rode on the shoulders of men and this already signified her modus vivendi. He had a house with multiple courts and isolated living areas for each offspring connected by halls decorated a a fortunate mans house should. She lived in her own secluded court served by Cuckoo and fed nothing, but the most eloquent foods brought from remote lands. The magnitude of money she spent and her prosperous lifestyle made her only suitable for a rich man. They ate different foods and wore different clothes and needed different levels of attention, but the

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