To Live Composition Techniques

1. Fugui could feel the hair on his neck standing up as the men shouted for Long'er, the landowner of hisprevious house, to be executed, and when the shots rang out, he began shivering uncontrollably although it was a warm sunny day.
2. Fugui caught a final glimpse of his son under the white sheet, blood gushing from his face, arms and legs lying limp on the board.
3. They saw the Red Army thundering towards them like ants that had found a threat to their anthill, furocious and intimidating.
4. When joy spreads through a crowd, it brings laughter, it boasts itself in the joyous chorus of the people, and it shakes from them any fear and anger that they had held in their hearts.
5. There would occasionally be a cry--- the scream of the newborn baby; the yell of a mother in pain; the cry of anguish that a parent loses a daughter.
6. Fugui is a lanky man probably in his thirties and has large black eyes that often revealed his mood. Fugui enjoys gambling and is unable to restrain from this temptation because he believes he could win all his losses back and because he had learned from his father who also gambled. He is shocked when he asked to leave due to the fact that he had nothing left to gamble and he dejectedly exits the tea house. He meets his wife, Jiahzhen, outside and she says: "Fugui, I am leaving and I am taking your daughter with me." They two then leave Fugui, who stands stunned with his mouth agape and his eyes wide with disbelief.