Writing Goals

This year in language arts I want to be able to improve my time management along with my sentence structure. Even though the other two goals are very important the one I want to focus on the most is to use a more advanced vocabulary in my writing.

Essay

Here is my response to the novel "The Good Earth"
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Good Earth - Wang's uncle, and the City to the South

Throughout the chapters of the Good Earth you are introduced to a very selfish character. Wang Lung's uncle is a very selfish man who only seems to care about wealth and materialistic objects. To me, it seems, that when his uncle says " I am a man of evil destiny. This year out of twenty seed beans, one came up and in such poor growth as that there is no use in putting the hoe down. We shall have to buy beans this year if we eat them", he is trying to trick Wang Lung into feeding his family, because he is a lazy man and does not want to work. During one of the chapters I was appalled when Wang's uncle lead a riot into his nephew's home and took all his food. When that accrued I was shocked because they are family and family shouldn't act behave so horribly.

Wang Lung, and his horrible misfortunes, move to the city to the south. Once there their life improves greatly, and he is able to feed his family by getting a job pull a cart. Soon his life is better and he even has a house of his own to live in. He has shelter, food, and a job to provide it all, and during a famine many others would die for the chance at all of this. Wang Lung seems grateful, but is he really?