The good earth3

In the great city, Wang Lung's wife, children, and father were forced to beg for money to live, while he himself pulled heavy "jinrickshas" around town for whoever would pay. Everyday, he came back to the hut exaughsted and weary and everyday, he had just enough money to buy the meager meals of rice for his family. Occasionally, he would pass revolutionaries telling onlookers that "You are poor and downtrodden and it is because the rich seize everything." Everywhere he looked, Wang Lung saw the squalor and filth of the street contrasting sharply with the lives of the rich, and even with the life he dreamed of when he got back to his farm, for he rarely stopped thinking about the land. He dreamed of a way to get back, but he had no money. At on point, he even considered selling his daughter into slavery, but he decided against it. He was so desperate for money that when the revolutionaries rioted in the city and destroyed the houses of the rich, he stole some money from the rich man whose house he had been living next to for the past several months. Wang Lung then moved with his family back to the village, but found their house torn apart. They had some money left over, however, so they began rebuilding. Then, one night O-lan revealed that she had stolen some gems from the rich man's house in the great city, so Wang Lung could buy some more land.