The Meaning of the Earth in The Good Land he mixed it with water and repaired the walls of the house, then rebuilt the oven and filled the holes in the floor that the rain had washed away. Good Earth, is so powerful that it permeates and binds the entire narrative. It is presented repeatedly throughout the novel, through a gentle innuendo or a direct statement. No one can dispute that land itself is a vital component to any farmer's livelihood, so it is no surprise that farmer Wang Lung places so much value on his lands however, there is one element; separate of the land that Pearl S. Buck highlights in her tale of a peasant's prosperous rise in feudal China, that element of regeneration and revitalization that is so evident in this selected passage of the book has done many times throughout the book so that the earth dragged Wang Lung through hardship and hardship, and was the only constant factor in his life, even as things changed: people die, great houses fall, war and famine rage, and inner turmoil plagues his very being. Despite all these obstacles, the land was always there, waiting for Wang Lung, whether as a poor farmer or a rich village man, to return to it and draw from it those ever-present qualities of life and healing. The very words of the selected passage are full of these qualities, as Wang Lung and his family, returning from the south to his land after a great and terrible period of famine, close those horrible years through the almost magical substance of the earth. It is symbolic how O-lan the wife, taking care of the structure of the farm house (a symbol itself in the Wang family) uses the "land of the fields" to repair the walls of the house - thus the ailments of the "house" are healed by the richness of the land.

Topic > The Meaning of the Earth in The Good Land he mixed it with water and repaired the walls of the house, then rebuilt the oven and filled the holes in the floor that the rain had washed away. Good Earth, is so powerful that it permeates and binds the entire narrative. It is presented repeatedly throughout the novel, through a gentle innuendo or a direct statement. No one can dispute that land itself is a vital component to any farmer's livelihood, so it is no surprise that farmer Wang Lung places so much value on his lands however, there is one element; separate of the land that Pearl S. Buck highlights in her tale of a peasant's prosperous rise in feudal China, that element of regeneration and revitalization that is so evident in this selected passage of the book has done many times throughout the book so that the earth dragged Wang Lung through hardship and hardship, and was the only constant factor in his life, even as things changed: people die, great houses fall, war and famine rage, and inner turmoil plagues his very being. Despite all these obstacles, the land was always there, waiting for Wang Lung, whether as a poor farmer or a rich village man, to return to it and draw from it those ever-present qualities of life and healing. The very words of the selected passage are full of these qualities, as Wang Lung and his family, returning from the south to his land after a great and terrible period of famine, close those horrible years through the almost magical substance of the earth. It is symbolic how O-lan the wife, taking care of the structure of the farm house (a symbol itself in the Wang family) uses the "land of the fields" to repair the walls of the house - thus the ailments of the "house" are healed by the richness of the land.