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Read the quotations below from Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth. Match each one with the theme or lesson it...

Read the quotations below from Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth. Match each one with the theme or lesson it suggests.
Quotation
So would also their house sometime return into the earth, their bodies also. Each had his turn at this earth.
If I had the silver, they would have taken it. If I had bought with the silver to store it, they would have taken it all. I have the land still, and it is mine.
"Hunger makes a thief of any man."
Theme
Land is more dependable than man-made things.
Desperation can force people to abandon their principles.
Nothing is permanent.

Answer

  1. Quotation: So would also their house sometime return into the earth, their bodies also. Each had his turn at this earth.
    Theme: Nothing is permanent.

  2. Quotation: If I had the silver, they would have taken it. If I had bought with the silver to store it, they would have taken it all. I have the land still, and it is mine.
    Theme: Land is more dependable than man-made things.

  3. Quotation: "Hunger makes a thief of any man."
    Theme: Desperation can force people to abandon their principles.

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