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Throughout the course of the novel, The Good Earth, Wang Lung and his family rise from a life of poverty to a life of wealth. This dramatic change in social status and life style causes Wang Lung and his family to gradually disconnect from the land. In addition, the Wang family slowly loses their moral position and their once valued family traditions. Unlike Wang Lung, his children were brought up in a life of wealth, never given the same opportunities to find their connection to the land. Wang Lung never teaches his children the value of the land as his father taught him, and thus the land is soon forgotten. The gods and their powers are also forgotten because Wang Lung chooses not to pass on his family traditions to his children. Towards the end of the novel the fate of Wang Lung's family becomes clear; they are destined to fall following in the footsteps of the House of Hwang.
Although Wang Lung separates himself from the land when he begins hiring laborers to work on......

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