5-17-11
AN: OK I'm going to talk about Wang Lung's children. I haven't really talked about them because well they're kind of boring. So here is a post about his 5 children...
The older boy, the youngest boy,
the poor fool,
the twins.
Their father hasn't bothered
to give them proper names,
they are just words.
They barely remember,
being poor and being thankful,
for the food on the table.
Now they are spoiled,
In every way possible,
like spoiled food.
5-10-11
AN: I hope those of you who wanted to read this post that was once here read it because now I have to re-write this post and the one above this because blogger is being stupid and deleted my posts.
4-28-11
AN: This post will be mostly about O-lan, Wang Lung's wife.
O-lan is a woman that puts up with everything that life throws at her. In this section of the book O-lan turns out to be pregnant, whether she is happy about it or not she doesn't tell Wang Lung. Even when she is carrying a child she still works just as hard as she did before, cleaning, cooking, and even working in the fields with Wang Lung. Just about an hour before she gives birth she is still working in the fields and even before she goes into her room, she makes dinner. Before she went inside, Wang Lung asked her if she wanted to call someone from the house she used to work at. O-lan replied with a scared and frightened no. Their child was a boy and it was celebrated and O-lan, was secretly happy about her new child, even if it was with someone she barely even knew.
4-27-11
AN: My group is reading The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. This is just sort of a summary to let you know who the characters are and about them so you can get to know the characters.
Wang Lung is a poor Chinese farmer who lives with his sick father. The opening sentence states that it is in fact is wedding day. Wang Lung knows nothing of his future wife, not even her name, and she knows nothing of him. His father bought her from her owners at the "great house" where she was a slave. When he arrives he finds out that her name is O-lan and grew up in the "great house" as a slave since she was 10. In Wang Lung's perspective O-lan is almost like a child, shy, stupid, and does what she is told. Wang Lung takes her home and then they're married.
It is kind of interesting to learn easily in two paragraphs a little about a book that I have never actually read. I would love to see you write something about the book that goes back to you more and can be more easily related to, and shows some of what you are actually thinking about the book because I am not thinking that you are showing much interest in the book as of now.
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