Talk:Growth of the Soil

Conclusion
The Conclusion section reads more like something you'd find in a review than an encyclopedia. The last sentence (...make it something unique and a work which should be revived, and far better known) particularly reeks of opinion rather than anything factual. Jrs044 (talk) 00:37, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree, but this can be said of the whole article. For instance, the character descriptions read as if none had any effect upon the lives/experiences the others. Isak, for instance, is a cold, un-affectionate husband who wanted a wife to gratify his personal manly needs as well as provide free labor. That is what really drove his wife to infidelity when she'd been "repaired", and it was the lack of love in her own life that resulted in her killing her own hair-lipped baby out of "mercy". Maybe Hamsun didn't intend to say this, he was after all a nationalist and would want to glorify Isak as a hero, but to any un-biased reader this is obvious. I also feel that the book isn't as relativistic towards evil and good as the article would have one believe. --64.46.3.66 (talk) 02:41, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

The link to Lit React should be removed. It's a high school or early-undergraduate level essay; there is nowhere any reference to the novel's place historically among novels or its place in Hansun's development, and never once puts one concept of literary theory to use. Even the kind of analysis it does try - an apportioning of praise and blame for the characters isn't insightful - it does poorly — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.251.246.111 (talk) 13:46, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

update table
I think someone needs to update the table above on the talk page as the article has undergone some changes since it was last updated. I don't think it is of stub class anymore and doesn't need immediate attention but I don't want to change it because I don't know how to.   Nik ol ai Ho   18:09, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 16:47, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Possible mistranslation
Hi, in the plot resume of book two, the Lendsmand's wife is referred to simply as "Fru" as if it were her first name. "Fru", however - cognate with German "Frau" - is simply the style of a married woman, like "Mrs." in English. I'll replace "Fru Heyerdahl" and "Fru" with "Mrs. Heyerdahl". T 84.208.86.134 (talk) 15:37, 3 November 2021 (UTC)