Out+of+Africa

Isak Dinesen
 * Out of Africa **

Basic Information about the Author:
 * used Isak Dinesen as a penname
 * birthname was Baroness Karen Blixen
 * Danish
 * Born April 17, 1885
 * For more information on the author, visit: []

Brief summary of the novel:
 * memoir of the author's time spent in her farm in Africa in present-day Kenya from 1913 to 1930
 * hardly ever mentions her own name or gives away personal details
 * narrator runs an evening school for the African people who live on her farm and nurses anyone who needs medical care each morning
 * the novel documents various events, out of chronological order, that occured while she was living there
 * the way the narrator depicts Africa resembles a sort of paradise, innocent and pure because it's not modernized like Europe
 * near the end, the tone switches and the story takes on a tragic feel
 * the farm goes backrupt
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Denys Finch-Hatton (one of her best friends) is killed in a plane crash
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">after settling all affairs in Africa, the narrator leaves and sells all her possessions there

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Location in //The Catcher in the Rye//:
 * //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Out of Africa //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">is the novel that Holden is reading during the events. He says he accidentally took it out of the library but actually enjoyed it.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Holden thinks the author would be a great person to call up and have a conversation with
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">found on pages 18 and 19

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Why was it included?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">﻿Karen Blixen acts as a protector of the African people who live on her farm
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Holden relates to her because he too wishes to be able to protect and save all of the innocent people in his life