6/19/2023 0 Comments Pearl s buck's the good earthAs drought and its resulting famine spread throughout the countryside, their crops shrivel and die and O-Lan recalls the time when her parents sold her into slavery for food. With the passage of time, Wang amasses five fields and his family has grown to include three children: two sons and a daughter. Wang's prowess as a farmer soon helps him to prosper and he uses his accumulated silver to buy another field from the Great House, whose fortunes have begun to dwindle. When she collapses, Wang carries her to the house, but she sends him back into the field and gives birth alone. Then, despite her pain, she joins her husband in the field to harvest the wheat. On the day that she gives birth, O-Lan stays at home until a thunderstorm threatens the crops. As time passes, O-Lan toils in the house and alongside her husband in the fields, even though she is now pregnant. That night, the stolid O-Lan cooks and serves a wedding feast to Wang, Old Father, Uncle and friends. Wang Lung, a Chinese farmer, awakens full of anticipation on his wedding day and proceeds to the Great House to fetch his bride, the kitchen slave O-Lan, who was sold into slavery by her parents during a time of famine.
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