Wang Lung's journey portrayed in Pearl Syndenstricker Buck's the good earth

This thesis aims to analyze The Good Earth focuses on Wang Lung as main character, his role clearly as a hero. Wang Lung fight for family and legacy fit to Hero’s Journey, he never let his whole family suffer to starving. When the character's traits have been established via character analysis and characterization, The Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell theory is used to map out the character's journey. Wang Lung's passage through the heroic storyline is studied using a descriptive qualitative technique. The result of this thesis is Wang Lung as main character has some traits, he portrayed as a simple man, love his land, love his family, and kind of old tradition that drives him to be a pious person. The findings of this research show that Wang Lung has experienced the three stages of Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell, there are Departure, Initiation, and Return