Nguyen Huy Thiep’s Salt of the Jungle in comparision with Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea from ecological criticism

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Both The Old Man and the Sea and Salt of the Jungle are profound messages of “live and lets live”: living in harmony between human and nature is crucial to ensure man’s well-being as well as the earth’s living. While Hemingway tried to seek an inner balance between “respecting nature” and “conquering nature”, Nguyen Huy Thiep did not only praise the nature but also think of threats of ecological crisis due to human’s selfish behavior toward the environment. The work advocates ecological holism and criticizes people who destroy nature.