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Essay Archive - The Good Earth: Success in Wang Lung's Life
The Good Earth: Success in Wang Lung's Life
Wang Lung, the main character in the book The Good Earth, had a
very successful life. As exclaimed by him near the end, the land was the
rise of the family of Wang, and without the land, the family would fall.
He led an excellent life, however, there were a few things that undermined
the whole experience, and these are the things that went wrong.
The first major thing to go wrong was not long after the birth of
his third child. This event was the lack of rain and the famine that
ensued from that. He was forced to move to the north until the drought was
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