1.) Wang Lung felt in him a great pride that this women was his and did not fear to appear before him, but would not before other men. (Pg. 17)
             2.) "The person in my house has told me," he said, "of your interest in my oldest worthless slave creature. It is wholly true what you say. You are wise for your years. She should be married. She is 15 years old and for these three or four years could have given birth. I am terrified constantly lest she conceive by some wild dog and bring shame to me and to our name. Think of this happening in our respectable family, to me, the brother of your own father!" (Pg. 43)
             3.) "Eaten!" He cried. "If you could see my house! Not a sparrow could even pick up a crumb there. My wife-do you remember how fat she was? How fair and fat and oily her skin? And now she is like a garment hung on a pole-nothing but the poor bones rattling together in her skin. And of our children only four are left-the three little ones are gone-gone-and as for me, you see me!" He took the edge of his sleeve and wiped the corner of each eye carefully. (Pg. 60)
             4.) At first and for a long time it seemed to Wang Lung that he wished to see no human being but only to be alone on his land. He went to no houses of the village and when they came to him, those who were left of the winter's starving, he was surly with them. (Pg. 101)
             5.) "Come out of the fields from this day on, for I need a scholar in the family to read the contracts and to write my name so that I may not be ashamed in the town."... "My father," he said, "so I have wished for these last two years that I might do, but I did not dare to ask it." (Pg. 117)
             1.) This made me feel awkward, because now we find women have all the rights that men do, but during the time in the book, women were no better than slaves. It made me feel strange that a courageous woman was one that would speak ...