The Good Earth Type 2 Journal

The Good Earth

Type Two Journal--The Good Earth--Wang Lung, Olan, Lotus, Uncle

"Are we not to see the moth-browed bride?"Pg.24 Tactless- The uncle is tactless because everyone already expects a farmer's wife to be unattractive and he has no remorse to mock his nephew.

"This woman is well enough!"Pg.28 Content- Wang Lung becomes content with his wife when he learns that she cares for him more than anyone else.

"When I return to that house it will be with my son in my arms. I shall have a red coat on him and red-flowered trousers and on his head a hat with a small gilded Buddha sewn on the front..." Pg.34 Pretentious- Olan is pretentious because she wants to show the great house that she is no longer the slave that they knew, but she is a successful wife that has borne a healthy young son.

"Thus everyone will know I have a son!"Pg.39 Proud- Wang lung is proud to have a son as his first child. It is a symbol of good fortune, and he wants the word of his son and good fortune to be known to everyone.

"I will tell your words to the whole village!" Pg.66 Coercive- The uncle coerces Wang Lung to giving him money by threatening him to tell the village that Wang Lung cursed his whole family, his flesh and blood.

"My nephew there he has silver and he has food, but he will give none of it to us, not even me, and my children, who are his own bone and flesh."Pg.77 Contemptuous- The uncle is becomes contemptuous after his second visit to Wang Lung asking for money. After he is turned away with nothing he attempts to turn the village upon him their hunger forcing them to scorn him for having food.

"There and there and there!"... "That is for a thief!" Pg.119 Reproachful- He is reproachful of his children for belittling themselves by stealing. He does not know how to be proud of someone that steals.

"There is nothing to sell except the girl."Pg.124 Truthful- Olan is truthful to Wang Lung by telling him that the only way to get back to the land in their current situation is to sell their only girl to slavery.

"If I had the gold and the silver and the jewel, I would buy land with it, good land, and I would bring forth harvests from the land!" Pg.130 Sincere- Wang Lung is sincere because he would not buy luxuries for himself, but instead he would but land that would sustain all generations to come and could never be taken away.

"Give me money then"..."Give Me more" Pg.146 Hypocritical- Wang Lung is being a hypocrite because he had recently beat his children for stealing to survive, now he is stealing to get back to his land.

"Thus it is with gods that do evil to men!" Pg.153 Unsympathetic- Wang lung does not care that the earth gods have ragged clothes. They do as they please whether they are dressed nicely or not. Wang Lung has lost respect for the gods that had treated man so evilly.

"I have labored and grown rich and I would have my wife look less like a hind." Pg.181 Condemnatory- Wang Lung is condemnatory of his wife because she does not look as a rich mans wife should look. Rich men's wives are supposed to be pretty but Olan looks like a beaten housewife.

"There is that about you that makes me think of one of the lords in the great house." Pg.197 Disapproving- Olan is disapproving of the way Wang Lung has been acting; She compares him to a lord in the great house, which of whom to her were rich pigs. Wang Lung takes this as a compliment though.

"I have borne your sons--I have borne your sons--" Pg.209 Impetuous- Olan is impetuous because she wants Wang Lung to love her again and she is making a plea to him to realize she has given him everything he holds dear.

"Let me have this woman for my servant, seeing that I am altogether alone in the world, for my father and my mother died when I could not yet talk and my uncle sold me as soon as I was pretty to a life such as I have had, and I have no one." Pg. 216 Manipulative- Lotus likes to manipulate

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