Out of Africa is a semi-autobiographical story about the Duchess Karen von Blixen-Finecke and her seventeen-year stay on her coffee plantation in British East Africa, present-day Kenya. The book does not rely heavily on chronological narration and is broken into five parts, each dealing with different aspects of Blixen's residence and her dealings with the surrounding peoples. It is a meditation on colonialism, the twilight of the British Empire, and the country of Kenya itself.
Love never dies a natural death It dies because we dont know how to replenish its source It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness of withering of tarnishing Anais Nin Anais Nin is saying that love does not just go away there is a cause to its diminishing In the novel The Poisonwood Bible multiple betrayals partake within the Price family a family that went to the African Congo to take part in a religious mission Among the betrayed was Adah
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