hanghai. Another incident took place when a group of Chinese people surrounded the Bucks' house. Absalom, Buck's father, was away on a work trip, and only the girls were at home. Caroline confronted the Chinese and she was so nice and persuasive that the Chinese people left the Bucks alone. Buck remembered this great strength of her mother and copied it into her character, O-lan, from The Good Earth. O-lan used this strength when she told the robbers to spare her family the most necessary tools (Litz 113).
             Buck returned to her home country, the United States, to attend college. She went to school at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Here, Buck excelled greatly in her writing. She wrote numerous poems and stories. Buck was even involved in a class play. As a junior in college, she was elected president of her class. She accomplished much in her collegiate career and was recognized for her great writing talent when she was awarded two literary awards in her senior year of college (Conn 2).
             She returned to China when her mother became very ill. She nursed her mother back to health. While in China, she married her first of two husbands, John Lossing Buck. The newly weds established a home in the town of Nanking, located in northern China. While in Nanking, Buck obtained a lot of information about Chinese people and cult
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