2.) "The person in my house has told me," he said, "of your interest in my oldest worthless slave creature. It is wholly true what you say. You are wise for your years. She should be married. She is 15 years old and for these three or four years could have given birth. I am terrified constantly lest she conceive by some wild dog and bring shame to me and to our name. Think of this happening in our respectable family, to me, the brother of your own father!" (Pg. 43)

3.) "Eaten!" He cried. "If you could see my house! Not a sparrow could even pick up a crumb there. My wife-do you remember how fat she was? How fair and fat and oily her skin? And now she is like a garment hung on a pole-nothing but the poor bones rattling together in her skin. And of our children only four are left-the three little ones are gone-gone-and as for me, you see me!" He took the edge of his sleeve and wiped the corner of each eye carefully. (Pg. 60)

4.) At first and for a long time it seemed to Wang Lung that he wished to see no human being but only to be alone on his land. He went to no houses of the

5.) "Come out of the fields from this day on, for I need a scholar in the family to read the contracts and to write my name so that I may not be ashamed in the town."... "My father," he said, "so I have wished for these last two years that I might do, but I did not dare to ask it." (Pg. 117)

9.) I was taken aback by the openness of drug use as a method of relaxation. I had no idea that drugs were of such status and availability. Also I did not know that elders got everything that they desired simply for the fact that that they are old. However, in the Chinese culture elders are respected more than they are here.

8.) This passage shocked me. I knew that women were not of equal status of men, but I did not know that they had no say, and often times were not believed. I could not believe the disrespect the Wang Lung showed his wife by laughing at her thought of what their son should and shouldn't do.

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5.) This passage made me feel proud of his eldest son. Knowing that he has accomplished much, and so he has earned his right to pursue an education. It also made me think of how lucky I am to have received an excellent education and not have to ask for my father's permission.

6.) Then she went up to Wang Lung and took his hand and drew it to her face and she wooed him. But he, although he loved her again, loved her not so wholly as before, and never again so wholly as he had loved her. (Pg. 152)

3.) During this part of the struggle for survival, Wang Lung has changed. Before, he was only greatly concerned for the well being of his family, yet when he is faced with death, I sense that he is developing mor

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