The Old Demon is a fiction which depicts an old Chinese women, Mrs Wang who sacrifices her own life for the sake of mankind and humanity. The main Character is Mrs Wang. She is addressed by everyone as Granny. Mrs Wang has a very scientific bent of mind and so does not accept facts until she sees or experiences them herself. Mrs Wang has a dark past. Her husband was drowned and died when he was very young and therefore Mrs Wang brought up her children, took care of their land. Mrs Wang loved mankind and helped out a soldier in spite of the fact that he belonged to a rival country's army but when she saw the rival army approaching the village, she opened the water gate of the yellow river which had snatched her husband away from her, so that the army cannot move forward and destroy the village. She saved others but while doing so sacrificed her own life as the river waters engulfed her. This was a widely acclaimed story written by Pearl S Buck who often wrote about Chinese People.
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