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The Good Earth Book Vs Movie
The novel The Good Earth written by Pearl. S Buck and the movie Directed by Sidney Franklin were both similar, but had many differences.
The Movie The Good Earth showed the earth as a way of greed and corruption for Wang Lung. The more land he gathered the more greedy he appeared. Wang Lung wanted to keep purchasing land and does not want to, or plan on selling any land. He compares wealth with how much land he owns. He goes on to buy the house of Liu to show O-Lan how much wealth he had. He gives O-Lan pearls just because she wants to look at them. When she becomes very ill Wang Lung returns the pearls to her after taking them to use to obtain more land. Wang lung finally regrets being greedy once O-Lan passes away.
The Movie shows how much

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