Why is the good earth the novel called the good earth by Pearl S Buck?

Answer 1

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is called the good earth because the earth provided everything Wang Lung and his family needed to survive and more. Before he was married he didn't have sufficient land and a good house but after when he gets married with O- Lan and she help his husband in field, their hard work seems to make them able to have enough food and land and money to survive well. Where as Hwang household has squandered their fortune and was poor enough to be willing to sell off their land. Since Wang Lung, with the help of O-lan who continues to join him in the fields Wang Lung, obsessed with his desire to acquire more land, spends all the family savings; a drought causes a poor harvest and the family suffers from lack of food and from their envious. Desperately poor and hungry, Wang Lung sells his furniture for a bit of silver to take his family south, though he refuses to sell his land. Wang Lung and O-lan join the throng (Crowd) of poor people who loot the nearby rich man's house and get enough gold and jewels to enable them to return north. They repair their house and plough the fields, having bought seeds, an ox, new furniture and farm tools, and finally more land from the bankrupt House of Hwang.

There follow seven years of prosperity, during which the sons grow and begin school

the harvest is so plentiful that Wang Lung hires laborers and his loyal neighbor, Ching, as a steward.. When a flood causes a general famine in the seventh year, Wang Lung is rich enough not to worry about survival yet, while his lands are under water, he becomes restless in his idleness

As Wang Lung ages, he rents out his farm land to tenants

Wang Lung is gratified that now he can take the place of the Old Master of Hwang who once intimidated him so much. But although Wang Lung is head of a three generation extended family who live in luxury with numerous servants, he cannot find peace

Finally, Wang Lung returns to the earthen house of his land to die. Material prosperity has brought him superficial social satisfaction, but only his land can provide peace and security. Even his final days are troubled, when he overhears his two older sons planning to sell the land as soon as he dies.

Earth gave him food, land to farm, a house made of earth. Because of the land, Wang Lung survived. With the jewels O-Lan stole, Wang Lung bought more land. This land made him become richer and richer and leaded him into being the Old Lord like in the House of Hwang.

Answer 2

In the Good Earth by Pearl S Buck, the earth provides everything Wang Lung and his family need to survive and more. Before he was married he didn't have sufficient land.