"It was Wang Lung's marriage day...'Rest assured, our father, rest assured. The land is not to be sold.' But over the old man's head they looked at each other and smiled."
These are the first and three last sentences of this book.
The Good Earth is about the life of a farmer in China who starts out very poor, earns a lot of money and raises himself and his family up to a high social status, and then misses his life as a poor farmer working in the fields when he is about to die. At the end of this book, Wang Lung is all ready to die. He even has his own coffin already. However, the book implies that with his death is the death of an entire generation of farmers. His sons plan to sell the precious land that was the center of Wang Lung's life. None of his three sons desire to become farmers.
This book is a very realistic, but fictional biography of a Chinese farmer named Wang Lung. This book is a story about one man's life. It tells the reader all about this Chinese farmer's from the age of around 18 when he gets married to around 70 when he dies. In this time of about fifty years, Wang Lung simply lives his life. And life, for him, is a search for peace. Sadly, he does not find it, even at the end.
I would not recommend this book to my friends, but i acknowledge that it is a good book and well written.
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