Understanding a book and author
Title: Understanding a book and author
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 658 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Understanding a book and author
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 658 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
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The Good Earth
by: Pearl S. Buck
A book about Chinese culture and life,
”Wang Lung is the central figure in the Good Earth. He is a simple, hard-working Chinese farmer. " The portrayal of Wang Lung’s character is starkly frank. His strengths and weaknesses are candidly examined and bared before the reader; and while, on the basis
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and limited in vocabulary, therefore, if the story was told from his point of view it would also be limited by this vocabulary. The story is told and events depicted as they relate to Wang Lung. The narrator does not explain aspects of life that Wang Lung would not know. The Good Earth is in the form of a biography. The story is told chronologically from the main characters young manhood to his old age.
