In the book “The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck, a Chinese farmer called Wang Lung starts off poor. Then he marries a servant from the house of a rich man. He and his new wife O-lan have lots of children and buy land from the House of Hwang, where O-lan had been a servant. They are doing well until a drought comes, and they are forced to move south. After a long time of begging and doing small jobs just to get by, a mob of people, including Wang Lung and O-lan, rob the rich house in the south then they go back to their original home. Wang Lung, farms so many crops that he gets rich. He gets tired of O-lan so he goes to a tea shop and buys Lotus, a young, beautiful woman to be his new wife. At the end of the story Wang Lung is so rich, that he buys the whole House of Hwang. Just before he is about to die, Wang Lung makes his sons promise not to sell the land, but they give each other a look that makes the reader infer that they will still sell the land.

I think that the book was about a three out of five because it could’ve been more action-packed at times. I would recommend others to read it because it gives you more of an insight on what life was like in China.