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| The Good Earth |
| 03.23.05 (2:06 pm) [edit] |
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By Pearl S. Buck I finally finished reading this book; I'm not sure how many months it took me. By the time I started reading it again, I had forgotten a lot about what happened. Anyway, I quite enjoyed the book. But I absolutely hated the ending. I was thinking, "what, that's it?!" This book is about the life of a man in China and his land. He starts off quite poor, but acquires wealth over the years. He has a family, including concubines. Then he gets old and dies. You get the point that his land is his life, but as he's laying on his death bed at the end, he founds out his sons are going to sell it when he croaks. The book ends with his sons smiling at each other. It made me think that they were EVIL! And unexpectedly. And that made it a cheap ending. There's not much major conflict in the book, so I don't know why the author would spring something like that at the very end. |
posted by: altricial (reply)
post date: 03.23.05 (2:43 pm)
Why is it evil to sell the land?
posted by: rosietulips (reply)
post date: 03.23.05 (10:26 pm)
Reply to: altricial
His land was his life. He didn't want it sold. I thought it was really heartless of his sons to do it. :-(
posted by: altricial (reply)
post date: 03.24.05 (3:01 am)
Perhaps. But once he was dead, it wasn't his land anymore. It was theirs. He chose to give it to them. He raised them to be who they were.
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