Wang Lung The Good Earth

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People might ask themselves, how, whether they have strayed away from their parents' beliefs or what their religion expects of them? Some would say that they do not go to church enough, others might say that they have done some things that their parents of which they would not approve. When Wang Lung was growing up, and until he was wealthy, he had to work in the field all day to keep his house and to feed him and his father. Lung accepted the customs that his family had always valued. However, when he becomes wealthy, his sons, instead of being raised as Lung was raised, are raised as young lords and their values differ from their father's. In The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, Wang Lung's children are raised in an atmosphere of privilege, leading them away from their family’s traditional values. …show more content…

They never understood what the land has done for them. The land allowed the family to become rich and for a while, their whole house was made of the dirt. Lung has spent so much time on the land and sustaining his family to get them to where they are now. Only one of his sons knows what it is like to work in the field. Lung's youngest son was going to be the one that stays and works in the fields and tends to crop. The other sons did not want to stay and work in the fields or even keep the fields. Lung's sons were going to sell the land as soon as he died. Lung decides to educate his son so that the son could do all the market work that Lung had no idea how to do, Lung was not educated enough to read and write. When the other son heard about this he complained and eventually Lung gave in and sent them both to school. One was going to learn to become a merchant and the other was keeping hold of the

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