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With the time going on, the author had learned many ways of communicating with local people in abundant natural resources. Let’s look at how our author wrote about Lulu, a meek lamb. The author admired the trait of Lulu’s courage to conquer the world as a female. “She had, to the highest degree, the feminine trait of appearing to be exclusively on the defensive, concentrated on guarding the integrity of her being, when she was really, with every bit of force in her, bent upon the offensive. Against whom? Against the whole world.” And besides, Dinesen appreciated Lulu’s communication skills that won her “the power and position in the house”. “Still nobody could be of a gentler demeanor than Lulu was when she came and lay down, in the manner of a perfect lady who demurely gathers her skirts about her and will be in no one’s way…She drank the milk with a polite, pernickety mien, as if she had been pressed by and an overkind hostess.” She described Lulu’s beauty like this “Her nose was as black as a truffle. Her diminutive hoofs gave her all the air of a young Chinese lady of the old school, with laced feet. It was a rare experience to hold such a perfect thing in your hands.” Can anyone without affection towards creatures have such passion and attentive care to observe these situations? Even Lulu went back to the forest after growing up, she never forgot to go back to visit her master now and then, along with her families. Not only did she show her care to an animal, but also the humanism to an individual. Gradually the concord relation between man and animals and the friendly relation between the local people and the author prompt her to express her affection on the place and the local people, which has enabled her to disclose a far more profound meaning of life.

3.2.2 European settlersfriendship between colonists and aborigines
The period of time when the author stayed in Africa is the transition period for the Europeans
from the western free capitalism development to the period of imperialism from the end of the 19th century to the first 20th century. A few capitalists dominated national economy by dealing with domestic and overseas exploitation, at a result of colonial practice in faraway region. What’s worse, various conflicts led to the WW1 when Kenya was one of the English colonies. Dinesen came to Africa as a colonist under such background. While in fact, she was an anti-colonist and a humanist. We can still catch her deeply thoughts on life and her noble independent character glamour in the context of the combination of African and European culture. 毕业论文http://www.751com.cn/
Like Lawrence of Arabia, Out of Africa is a story of time and place. Just as T.E. Lawrence's tale could only have happened in the Middle Eastern deserts of the Great War, it was impossible for Isak Dinesen to live irrelevant of her experience without the gorgeous vistas of East Africa of almost exactly the same time.
Director Sydney Pollack has crafted a film, based on the life and writings of Baroness Karen Blixen (the pseudonymous Dinesen), that is both a love letter to a lost Africa and a paean to one woman's luxurious indulgence of her quest for independence and adventure. Karen (Meryl Streep) arrives in Kenya in 1913 to marry Baron Bror Blixen (Klaus Maria Brandauer). Though they had been good friends back home in Denmark, it is a marriage of convenience for both: he has the title, and she has the money they need to start a coffee plantation. East Africa is a frontier world to the motley Europeans settling there. They all are eager for the excitement of the exotic, alien country and yet all paradoxically are lonely for home. (An Englishman Karen who meets her on her arrival wonders if she travels through London, and might she have a newspaper; Karen herself brings all her own treasures with her: china, a cuckoo clock, books.)
But it's also a world far enough remote from the proper society that a woman can break free from the constraints placed on her by the instinct of her gender, to such an extent that even today Karen seems modern. When the Great War breaks out and the Germans begin rattling their sabers nearby, Bror rides off with a provisional army to hold them at a bay, leaving Karen alone to run the plantation原文请+QQ324,9114辣'文.论,文'网and run it wellon her own. When Bror sends a request for supplies, she sets off on a harrowing journey to bring them to the men by herself, saying in the end that "it was fun." She fights a lion with a bullwhip and shoots another dead with one shot. She has a refreshingly grown-up, realistic attitude about men. Her husband may be a philanderer, and she may not be in love with him, but she certainly likes to have sex with him. (Her young friend Felicity echoes Karen's sensibility when she says, "I want men to like me but I also want to be let alone.") And Karen has no qualms about kicking Bror out when he oversteps even Karen's loose bounds, or having an affair with the free-spirited big-game hunter Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford).

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