A Contrast and Comparison between To Live and The Border City

这是一篇边城与活着这两本书对比的演讲稿
Hello,everyone! Welcome to my speech.Today, my topic is about a comparison between two modern Chinese novels, To Live and The Border City. It consists of four parts. Firstly, an introduction to two authors, following the contrast of the writing techniques of the two works, the part below is concerning themes of each work, finally, a comparison as a conclusion.
The author of The Border City is Shen Congwen,who was brought up in Hunan province. He started his writing career in 1924 and passed away in 1988 in Beijing. Through his life, he has written more than 30 short novels and 6 long novels.There are a variety of topics in his works with unique forms. He wrote for presenting the life of the common people, the harmonious spirit and distortion and deformation shaped by the background of a great era. While Yu Hua, the author of To Live, born in Zhejiang province. He was a representative of the Vanguard School in the mainland of China. He published his first novel in 1984. Since then,he has written several short novels,long novels,essays and so on. His works was known for its exquisiteness.What he described are handicaps in the real world. He once stated that all his works are intended to increase its reality. 
Next,let’s come to their writing techniques. The Border City was written with the integrating style of lyrics and essay. It has expressed the natural beauty,the beauty of the custom and the beauty of the human nature. Shen Congwen set up a background,a picturesque village with regional flavor and culture. Through this style, he managed to present his thoughts, to live in a beauty world with simple and faithful love surrounded.However, it is not only idyllic, but also a tragedy, as the heroine’s relatives and friends passed away finally. Now, let’s see the writing style of Yu Hua in To Live. He was good at describing the cruelty with cold situation. He destroyed the reader’s bright vision step by step which gradually appeared in readers’ mind with a slow and peaceful way. He revealed the nature of life,cruelty from hypocrisy with ease, likewise a skillful surgeon. Why does his adopt such a style? According to him, there is no exact description of life, happiness or unhappiness, life is to live peacefully, with a little sense of loneliness.
Now , I am going to talk about the intention of two writers in writing them. Shen Congwen wrote to describe his wish for life. The reader could sense the beauty of the village from three aspects,landscape, custom and human nature. This can be viewed directly. Moreover, the story pays more attention to what happened in the village. Most intimate people to the heroine Cuicui died in the end because of the great era, for example, the trend of money-oriented. In a word, he expressed his wish in the opposite way, wished to rebuild the society as he did not content with the current one. Then, let’s see the intention of Yu Hua in his work To Live. The theme of it is that one should live still bravely even unhappiness happens.This was delivered through the story of Xu Fugui, the hero. Xu’s story was ended as all his intimate people left him and lived with a cow named Fugui in the end. When one relative left him each time, he determined to live still. According to Yuhua, the story likes almost the real life, with various taste, with sorrows and joys. The author intends to exhort readers to be optimistic and tolerant for living.
Finally, I will talk about the similarity of them from several aspects. Both of them portray a growing up story on the hero or the heroine.Cuicui became cognitively mature, while Fugui grew to be a persevering.
    That is all of my speech and many thanks for your attention!