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    A Study Guide for Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Deed"
    A Study Guide for Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Deed"
    A Study Guide for Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Deed"
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    A Study Guide for Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Deed"

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    A Study Guide for Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Deed," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535836937
    A Study Guide for Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Deed"

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      A Study Guide for Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Deed" - Gale

      11

      The Good Deed

      Pearl S. Buck

      1953

      Introduction

      The Good Deed by Pearl S. Buck was first published in 1953 in Woman's Home Companion magazine under the title A Husband for Lili. It was subsequently published as The Good Deed in The Good Deed: and Other Stories of Asia, Past and Present, a collection of ten of Buck's stories that range in time from World War II to the date of publication in 1969. The story involves a clash of traditional and progressive ideologies, centering around the theme of old versus new, and includes ruminations on marriage and on Chinese culture. Buck, a lifelong proponent of cultural exchange and understanding, promotes it in most of her fiction, including The Good Deed.

      Author Biography

      Buck was born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker to Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Both of her parents were Southern Presbyterian missionaries stationed in China. She was born while her parents were on a leave of absence in the United States, and the family moved back to China when she was just three months old. Aside from trips to the United States, Buck spent her entire childhood in China. Buck was educated primarily by her mother and spoke both English and Chinese. In 1910, Buck left China to enroll in Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She returned to China shortly after her graduation in 1914, when she received information that her mother was extremely ill. In 1915 she met her future husband, John Lossing Buck, an agricultural economist and missionary, in China. They were married on May 13, 1917, and soon moved to Suzhou, a town in the Anhui province. It was this economically impoverished town that served as the inspiration for Buck's most famous work, The Good Earth.

      The Bucks had a troubled and unhappy marriage almost from the beginning. From 1920 to 1933, Buck and her husband primarily lived in Nanking on the campus of Nanking University, where they both had teaching positions. Buck taught English literature. In 1921 they had their first daughter, Carol, who was tragically afflicted with phenylketonuria (PKU) and was severely mentally retarded. That same year, Buck's mother died

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