Pearl S. Buck is a very descriptive and detailed type of writer, who can practically "make a movie behind your eyelids" on her novel, The Good Earth. Sometimes though, I think that Buck makes some things a little too detailed. When I red the book quietly to myself, it sounded a little strange at first, for it seemed like a novel for teens or older. But when I read the novel out loud along with my reading group, taking turns reading a paragraph each, the whole story seemed alive. Probably because we were reading the paragraphs in a dramatic voice, and most likely that is what really helped us understand what Buck was really trying to tell us through her novel.
Thru ought the 16 chapters that I have read so far, I felt that the characters were being a little too harsh on certain characters. For example, when O-lan was about to give birth to her and Wang Lung’s first-born child, she was working on the field while in labor. Wang Lung was acting all impatient and a little unkind to her. I mean, in my opinion, how could a woman even work when she is in labor? Also, when O-lan gave birth to a daughter, from then on, Wang Lung called his own daughter names like “a little fool”, of “little slave girl”. I thought that that treatment was really unfair.
Though sometimes Buck is a little too detailed in description of a few parts of the book, so far, this novel has been a page-turning book, and a quite interesting one at that.
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