Ernest Hemingway’s Awareness of Sustainable Development in Green Hills of Africa

Abstract:

To carry out the worldwide environmental protection, ecocritics try to popularize the campaign by examining how current environmental issues are represented in literary works. With ecocirticism as the theoretical support, this paper is to interpret Ernest Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa, analyze the relationship between characters and nature, and reveal his attitude towards the natural world, by applying the combination of discourse analysis and documentary analysis. While hunting, Hemingway shows concern for environmental degradation, sticks to the hunting principle all the time, and is good at turning trash to treasure. It is not hard to conclude that Ernest Hemingway has developed the awareness of sustainable development. As a distinguished writer, Hemingway is of great importance to modern sustainable development in advocating, popularizing, and fulfilling this concept.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 524-527)
• Pages: 2553-2556
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.524-527.2553
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Ying Zhang
• Keywords: Green Hills of Africa, Hemingway, Nature, Sustainable Development

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