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Every author has his or her own style of writing. The way authors use words to create ideas give them different styles. One interesting writing style is that of Pearl S Buck, the author of The Good Earth. Peter Doyle criticizes Buck's writing style as "almost biblical". Pearl Buck's writing is also compared to Chinese sagas. I agree with the criticism because of striking similarities between them.

The Good Earth and the bible are similar in the way they were written. In
The Good Earth Buck uses choppy sentences, using "and" to link the fragments. Often one sentence will be an entire paragraph having many parts: "And he urged them to eat and they ate heartily of the good fare, heartily and in silence, and this one praised the brown sauce on the fish and that one well-done pork, and Wang Lung said..." (Page 17)
The bible is almost exclusively written the same exact way: "And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and......

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