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Nectar In A Sieve Essay, Research Paper


The Good Earth and Nectar in a Sieve Comparisons


The Good Earth and Nectar in a Sieve were two very


different novels. One was about a family in India under


Hindu beliefs. The other was about a family in China that


followed Buddhist beliefs. Both books share similar ideas.


Although this is the case, the books have some unlike ideas.


In Nectar in a Sieve and The Good Earth, three things


are compared: weddings, duties of wives,


and treatment of children.


Weddings in a Hindu society are very different


than those of a Buddhist society. In Nectar in a Sieve,


the marriage of Rukmani and Nathan?s daughter Irawaddy,


the family was poor and she had a plain wedding.


At her wedding, she had a small party and food set aside


for the guests to eat. Nathan paid a dowry to her husband


of one-hundred rupees. Wang Lung and O-lan, the parents


in The Good Earth, had a more exuberant wedding.


Their first son?s bride had many things given to her,


such as oils, her fingernails were painted, and she


received new clothes. A dowry was paid but the amount


was not revealed. While finding a suitable wife is


important to both, how the wives are treated and


expected to do is different.


Women are expected to do different things in Hindu


and Buddhist religions. In The Good Earth, O-lan is


expected to bear sons and take care of them. She also had


to cook, clean, and help in the growing of their crops.


By the time

she had many children, she had stopped working


in the fields. Ruku in Nectar in a Sieve, was expected


to do more. She had to bear children, preferably boys,


work in the fields, cook, clean, sew, sell produce,


wash and several other things. Having children, they


were treated depending on the sex that they were.


Children in the book The Good Earth were


handled in a different way of that in Nectar in a


Sieve. In The Good Earth, male children were


respected and their futures were thought of in advance.


On the other hand, females were not as highly respected


and usually sold as slaves around the age of ten or twelve.


Otherwise they are kept and given away as brides. Ruku and


Nathan?s boys in Nectar in a Sieve were supposed to be


farmers, but they all turned away from farming and became


things like doctors and servants. Their only girl was


only to help her mother and to be wed. The treatments of


both sexes of children are different everywhere.


The three things that are similar yet different in


Nectar in a Sieve and The Good Earth are weddings, duties


of wives, and treatment of children. Weddings are altered


depending on the culture. While Chinese women have little


to no respect, Indian women have little respect but not


none at all. Boys and girls have very different


management. In the novels, the three examples of the


differences are shown intensely. The Hindu and Buddhist


cultures are very different, yet they are similar in some


ways.

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