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It is early dawn with the sun barely rising, in his small house. Wang sets out to the small village near his farmland to make his marriage day good. He is nervous to arrive at the great House of Hwang.
Plot Event # 1, P. 1-3 Wang’s Marriage Day - Wang Lung is a poor farmer who lives with his dad. Wang is going to get married. He is going to marry a slave from The House of Hwang which is a house of richness in his town. He is very nervous for he hasn’t met this slave before in his life and decides to use what little money he has to make this a good day.
Days pass by in his house in which Olan is with child. Olan is still working hard around Wang’s house and around the kitchen. Wang spends his days working on his small farmland. At the feast,
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168 Success - After coming back with many riches and jewels which Wang and Olan had taken in the city, Wang decided to purchase all of the Whang’s house land. This brought great prosperity in future years to come. Wang even put his two older sons in school since he was ashamed of himself being illiterate. Wang is wiser and prepared for any disaster in his way now that he is successful.
There was a river that caused a major flooding to all of his farmland. There was pools and lakes of water surrounding the entire farmland. His house was unaffected because of where his house was made. His house was on a great hill that not even the waters could reach. Wang would find himself late at night in the tea house.
Plot Event # 9, P. 177 The Flood - There is a great flood that surrounded all of his lands. There was no work to be done since there is extreme flooding. Wang would eventually fill his time by going to a prostitute tea house in the town. Never satisfied by this new woman that he came to visit, he chose to purchase her and for her to live with him and there to fully satisfy him because of her beauty, forgetting Olan’s motherhood.
Inside his own house, Wang confronted his second son in his room to tell him the truth about Wang’s oldest son. Wang also confronted his uncle while he was

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