The Good Earth Structure The Good Earth is a novel in the form of a biography. The story is told chronologically from the hero's young manhood to his old age, a period covering roughly forty years. The novel is made up of thirty-four chapters and falls into two main parts. The first fourteen chapters establish Wang Lung's commitment to the land and depict his solid family relationships with his wife and father. His achievement of modest prosperity is followed by a sudden reversal in the form of poverty and famine which drives him and his family to the city to beg and perform hired labor. Chapters 11 to 14, which take place in the city, provide a striking contrast to the earlier depiction of country life and its traditional values. The climax of the first part of the book occurs in Chapter 14 when city unrest leads Wang and his wife, O-lan, to join a raid on a rich man's house. The money and jewels they steal enable them to return to the land. The illegal gain proves the turning point of Wang's life and fortune. The second part of The Good Earth follows Wang's fortunes from his return to his village, through his acquisition of more and more land (Chapters 15 to 19), to his eventual acquisition of the mansion of the former grand family of the district, the Hwangs (Chapters 26 to 29). His rise in wealth and status is accompanied by his fall from a state of contentment as he alienates himself from the land and his family. The last five chapters reveal the price Wang pays for his wealth. He is alone; his wife is dead and so is his father. His sons are unsympathetic to traditional ways and to the land, and even his grandchildren laugh at him for his old-fashioned ways. He moves back to his farmhouse with a young slave girl who acts as a daughter and with his own mentally retarded daughter whom nobody else would care for.
In this chapter the fourolds are brought to attention, and this changes the course of the story. Many shop signs are being torn down and broken up because they are supposedly fourolds. Ji Li is very excited about this and is full of spirit. However, she goes home and her family reprimands her for what she is doing. Also, she gets into a name calling fight with some of her friends and they call her a black. This is the first time that Ji Li experience discrimination for matters out of her control.
At Notre Dame every student was required to play a sport. Knute chose to play football for the Fighting Irish. He played as a scrub as a freshmen, so he decided to turn to track. He set the school record for men’s pole vault by vaulting twelve feet four inches in the air. Knute then gave football a second chance, which turned out to be a phenomenal decision. He was named to Walter Camp All America Squad as a third string end. His most famous catch was in the important upset of Army in 1913, this brought attention to Notre Dame, and the use of the forward pass in college football.
The novel is about two teenagers. "Luo, who is good a story telling and an unnamed narrator, "a fine violin player" who are sent to be re-educated after the Chinese cultural revolution. They are sent to a mountain called "Phoenix of the Sky because their parents were publicly denounced and recognized as enemies of people. The general idea behind the Cultural Revolution was element of control. And Mao thought that all intellectuals were a thread to his power. The reason for that was that most of the intellectuals had the ability to think for themselves. Mao foun...
The Death of Woman Wang, by Jonathan Spence is an educational historical novel of northeastern China during the seventeenth century. The author's focus was to enlighten a reader on the Chinese people, culture, and traditions. Spence's use of the provoking stories of the Chinese county T'an-ch'eng, in the province of Shantung, brings the reader directly into the course of Chinese history. The use of the sources available to Spence, such as the Local History of T'an-ch'eng, the scholar-official Huang Liu-hung's handbook and stories of the writer P'u Sung-Ling convey the reader directly into the lives of poor farmers, their workers and wives. The intriguing structure of The Death of Woman Wang consists on observing these people working on the land, their family structure, and their local conflicts.
Society, individuals, and governments all have their own definition of good. They vary a little, but they are still followed. However, when the definition of good is manipulated to fit someone’s own character, it loses its meaning. In the narrative, A Good Man is Hard to Find, the narrator creates a new definition of good; however, so do the characters. Eventually, the antagonist’s definition of good, which is just her values, along with her egotistical and manipulative nature, results in her downfall; the author employs biblical allusion and a series of plot twists to emphasize these tragic flaws.
1. What do you find is the most crucial in the plot in Chapter 1?
In this short story there is no characterization of a good man or good people. However, a good man means, gullibility, rude, disrespectful, poor judgement, and no faith, none of which is good. Each character had specific sins, the mother lackadaisical, the father angry, the grandmother self-worship, and the children are resentful; expect the pureness of the baby, could not save them at the end of their lives. Consequently, the Grandmother did not recognize that a good man has been formidable to find, because others fail to recognize good in
...ot help but be torn by the strife and struggle the people of Fengjie are forced to accept as a convention on the mantel of normal behavior.
Audrey Hepburn was loved all over the world and was a very influential, successful actress. She was known for acting, modeling, and dancing. Many women in the world looked to Audrey as their idol. She was influenced by many things that happened during her early life.
In 1485, Henry Tudor allied with the French, Richard III’s enemies, and went into battle with him. Henry defeated Richard at the battle of Bosworth Field and soon after he was crowned King of England. Similar to other kings who had taken the throne by force, Henry could have been overthrown at any moment. Thus he needed to ensure a secure position, several of his decisions as King demonstrate his attempts at making that possible.
Who is Katharine Hepburn you might ask? She is an American actor who has had a world wine of a career. She was known as a fiercely independent woman who spoke her mind. Headstrong and self-sufficient, Hepburn refused to conform to society’s expectations of women and she did what she thought was right no matter what. She provoked society by wearing pants instead of dresses. We will take a dive into her career later on, but first let me tell you about her personal life.
The story, although set during the Cultural Revolution of China, is not really about the reign of Chairman Mao. It is about the seamstress and how she responds to the many actions of the two boys. The story begins when both Luo and the narrator were taken from their homes in order to be re-educated because everyone that was considered an "intellectual" (anyone that attended high school) must go through the re-education process. It is ironic that they felt they had to re-educate people that already had a high school level education. Neither Luo nor the narrator had completed high school, they explained towards the beginning of the novel that they only had completed three years of lower middle school. The narrator was only seventeen and Luo was eighteen years old at the time they were re-educated.
Lu Xun’s articles play an important role in modern Chinese Literature. Only by taking close reading, readers would be able to understand the deep meaning of his articles. “A Madman’s Diary” was the first vernacular fiction Lu Xun published, as well as the first Chinese vernacular story. The article includes preface and main body. The preface mainly uses classical Chinese to introduce background and cause of the story. The main body has thirteen pieces of Madman’s diary written in vernacular. The main character and the writer of diary both were “Madman”. Lu Xun used his poignant pen to reveal a variety of deep-seated social contradictions, also to dissect and deny the old Chinese system and concepts of stereotypes. He expressed a strong sense of urgency for national survival and a strong desire for social reform.
Up until now, we've been introduced to people such as Rachel and Lucy, Sally, Marin, Alicia and Cathy. These 2 chapters also give us a great insight, regarding the characters development throughout the novel. For example, we see Sally getting married and the narrator philosophizes about having a house in the future, where she would offer passing bums to stay in the attic.
A fiery Scots-Yankee known for her intelligence, humor and iron determination, Katharine Hepburn demonstrated remarkable staying power in a screen career that spanned more than six decades, winning three of her four Best Actress Oscars after the age of 60. Credit must go to her extraordinary parents, a noted urologist father, who at great professional risk brought the facts about venereal disease to a wider public, and his dedicated suffragette wife (an early champion of birth control), for providing an eccentric and genteel upbringing stressing Spartan physical discipline. Out of their Connecticut crucible emerged a strong-minded, outspoken, original who would become one of the nation's most admired and beloved actresses. Hepburn did it more on brains than beauty, though she was certainly not unattractive, and her strength of character, high moral fiber and regal poise were enduring qualities that continued to bring her choice parts as she aged.