The Good Earth: Wang Lung Wang Lung’s connection to the earth was a spiritual one. He depended on the earth for his livelihood. Because of this, he grew a spiritual link to the earth. If he grew tired while working, he would sleep on the ground and draw strength from the earth. When a massive drought came, and he had to leave his home, he yearned for his land. When a flood came, he couldn’t work his land, and had to find something else to occupy the void left by the absence of his work, and it could never satisfy him the way his land could. Every time, after being separated from his beloved land, when he returned to it, he was refreshed. It made him whol