Resumo de The Good Earth - Buck, Pearl S.

This book gives a good insight about the customs and traditions of China about a 100 years ago.The story highlights how the people loved Earth and believed Earth to be the life and blood of human life.It anchors on the story of a farmer who belonged to a traditional family of farmers,who toiled on the Earth and depended wholly on Earth for
all aspects of their life and reaped marvellous wealth by way of their extreme human efforts in tilling sowing and growing the crops at extreme heat and cold.The farmer who initially had a humble existance slowly grows rich enough to get a wife whom he carefully selected from among the slaves of a great rich family making sure that she being of good physique and poor looks will be a good companion for him in the fields.True enough, from the very day of her marriage,she took over household duties and care of his old sick father,and also toiled in the field surprising her husband by her stamina and good will.She works hard with a baby in her womb,and till the very moment of childbirth she worked in the field with her husband sweating and bearing the agonising pain of child birth which she attended herself with no help from anybody else.China loved sons,and cared little for daughters who were referred to as "slaves".The birth of the first son was celebrated in a grand fashion,with many sweetmeats and entertainments,raising the status of the mother.Every year there was a birth in the family,and the third time it was a girl,who was deaf mute and referred to as "the poor slave".The family grows rich and the man slowly starts going to the slave house where he enjoys the company of a call girl whom he later brings home as his concubine lavishing all comforts and sweetmeats on her,ignoring his first wife.Later the picture of a famine that struck the land forcing people to run away in search of food and shelter,forcing many to sell their belongings even their precious land for a morsel of food.Our hero refrained from selling the land even at extreme adversities and returns to the land at the end knowing that Land is a priceless gift and should never be forsaken.At his old age his sons take over the tradition which is continued through generations. Finally when he dies he is buried in his own land.Man's life starts and ends in" THE EARTH"

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