The Good Earth by: Pearl S. Buck-Plot

In the book The Good Earth, the exposition is when Wang Lung prepares to get married to O-lan, and for the first time since New Year’s Day, he washes for a change. The rising action is that he becomes wealthier because O-lan could work in the fields and cook delicious food for him. Soon, she also bears him a son, and because of their good fortune, Wang Lung buys land from the House of Hwang. For a few more years, Wang Lung keeps buying more and more land from the House of Hwang, and O-lan gives birth to a second son and a daughter. The climax happens when Wang Lung and his family moves to the south because of a major drought and because of all the starvation that was going on. Life in the city was very different from the countryside because now Wang Lung and his family have to live in a shack, and buy meals in pennies at the public kitchens. When Wang Lung finds out that O-lan has stole some jewels, he uses them to buy more land from the House of Hwang, and therefore, becomes wealthy again. The falling action is that Wang Lung buys himself a second wife, Lotus Flower, who becomes his concubine. Soon, his father and O-lan pass away. He then finds wives for all his sons and a husband for his younger daughter. The resolution is that Wang Lung is happy with the way his life is going along, and knowing that he himself is going to pass away soon, he moves into a little earthen hut to rest peacefully until the day he retires from the living world. Little does he know, his dream about his land outliving him, was not going to happen. His sons planned to sell of the land in exchange for riches, for they did not care about it.