Wang Lung receives enough money to return home and have a prosperous life. Things get better when armies approach the city and a food riot erupts. Arriving in the city, Wang Lung finds a job pulling a rickshaw, while his family turns to begging. Famine and drought force the family to leave for a large city in the South to find work. The first daughter becomes mentally handicapped due to severe malnutrition and famine, causing O-Lan to kill the second daughter and sell the third to a merchant. During this time, O-Lan gives birth to three sons and three daughters. Wang Lung and his new wife O-Lan buy land from the Hwang family in the hopes of starting a modest farm. The Good Earth is a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about family life in a Chinese village before World War II. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. Write a sensory poem to express the many representations of the land to Wang Lung. My daughter liked the writing prompts and journal exercises, and the assignments tied in closely with the novel. The novel, about peasant life in China in the 1920s, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932. Research the meaning of each form of literary irony, then identify the type of irony used in the novel. The Good Earth, novel by Pearl Buck, published in 1931.

Understand key vocabulary words prior to reading with fill-in-the-blank paragraphs. Identify what is being described from the metaphors and similes in the text. Analyze the actions of Wang Lung's uncle to describe his true character. Set the tone by brainstorming the traditional ways people celebrate the birth of babies. The Good Earth was a best-seller when first published and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.

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Pearl buck's the good earth