Out Of Africa: Discrepancies Between The Movie And Real Life

Name Instructor Course Date Out of Africa Movie Research Paper Out of Africa is a film about a woman and her life in Africa particularly Nairobi, Kenya but its later filmed. She travels from Denmark to Kenya to get married to a man name Bror. They also plan to open a dairy as far as their enterprise but Brors' interest is to run big game hunting on safari than managing a coffee farm he established and forgo the plans they had with her. The woman's name is Karen Blixen. The husband established the coffee farm after she contracted syphilis from her husband and had to fly to Denmark for treatment. She meets Brors' brother Denys Hatton whom she thinks wants the same kind of relationship that she wants but Denys think that marriage is of no importance to their relationship. The coffee farm yields a good harvest but a fire puts Karen into a compromising financial status and she thinks of relocating back to Denmark. She gives her Kikuyu servants a go-ahead to sell the things she's living behind on rummage but before that she had agreed with Denys that he would take her o Mombasa and after that, she will proceed to Denmark on her own. Before the Friday Of her fight, Bror tells her that Denys plane got an accident. After the burial, she heads to Denmark. Out of Africa is a story is about a lady, Karen who writes about building her home in Kenya. She recounts the seventeen years she had lived in Kenya which was then called British East Africa. The film Out of Africa is based on this true story of Karen Blixen. She and her husband buy a farmland in Ngong Hills. Blixen and Bror had plans of establishing a dairy farm but her husband developed the farm into a coffee farm instead. Squatters were the major producers of labor on the farm and managed mostly by Europeans among them Thomas, Karen's brother at first. The marriage between the two, Karen and Bror was great as they went on hunting safaris together. According to Thurman, Karen refers to the safaris as paradisiacal. (The life of a storyteller, pg 132). The First World War lead to the rise in the prices of coffee and the family of Blixen invested in the business which saw them expanding their farm to six acres which were 24km2. But Bror was unfaithful to her and not a good businessman hence squandered the money and the couple later divorced. She was then left to manage the farm lone but the soil and weather couldn't allow the proper growth of coffee and hence the leading to low yields. Other problems were the invasion of pests especially grasshoppers and long dry periods which led to more debts for the farm. According to Herne, falling market prices were also a factor contributing to the failure of the coffee farm owned by Blixen. (Herne, pg 117) This saw the family corporation forcing her to sell the farm. Remi Martin, the buyer of the farm allowed her to stay in her house but she declines and moves back to Denmark to her mother where...