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3.1 At the Beginning of Exploration— Entering Africa原文请+QQ324,9114优'文.论,文'网
In the early 20th century, Africa was the synonym of hotness, drought, plague, poverty, backwardness and ignorance after lifting its mysterious veil. In general, those who went into the barren land are mainly crafty speculators and peddlers, though among whom there were some brave explorers. And Isak Dinesen was such a rarely seen positive pioneer.
But what drove such a woman writer to experience the hardships in the trackless region? According to a friend of Dinesen, the author of the biography Out of Africa and Isak Dinesen, Dinesen made startling decisions in front of her families and friends in some critical living conditions. Having been bitterly hated those complicated formalities in Victoria, she had always been living in a condition that could hardly be defined by her own definition about life. She married Bror Blixen suddenly in1913 and gave away her easy life in Europe, deciding to go to Kenya in 1914. In 1920, she defused Bror’s idea of turning to other business by selling the farm. After the divorce, she began to run the coffee plantation alone. All these shocking decisions originated in her nature of going after freedom and firmness of purpose, since she was such a woman who boasted of courage and power that men seldom possessed. Young as she was, she was eager to have a new life. As to receive the title Baroness, she even married a man she did not love, a twin brother of her ex-lover. Actually, it was the desire to escape the life in Europe that prompted her to choose to go to Africa. She said:” My life has no meaning;” she was looking for new hope in the fervour of life again. Of course, all these demand cost, great cost, toughness and hardship-enduring strong will.

3.2 The difficulty of exploration experienced by the author in Africa
— A brave pioneer in exploring Africa
3.2.1 Women and nature—a blend of nature
For Dinesen, everything had the same life value as long as man keeps on his exploration, including animals, mountain and grassland if men could learn to tap them out and live them along with the natural surroundings harmoniously. She depicted the charming scenery of Africa that was primitive and vigorous. Only those who are able to settle down themselves to read her book can appreciate the beauty of the African continent. Now, listen to what she says, “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these high-lands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.” It seemed that her words have a kind of magical power, which convinces us to come down and remove our worries from the stir of the society. “The hill-country itself, when you get into it, is tremendous big, picturesque and mysterious; varied with long valleys, thickets, green slopes and rocky crags.” “Up in this highland, the air you can breathe easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be” All the sentences above indicate that Dinesen had been involved herself deeply into the land.  原文请+QQ324.9114优'文.论,文'网
Many titles of the passage in the book are named after the animals living there, from which we can see Dinesen’s attention to those wild creatures. In terms of animal features, she did well in subtle descriptions, especially in her grasp of the situations that could be lost in the twinkling of an eye. For example, the meek lamb, ill-groomed buffalos, mythological bug, colourful iguanas, self-sacrificing and hard-working Taurus and horrifying lions. It is worth 毕业论文http://www.youerw.com/ mentioning that Dinesen used to go hunting lions with her lover Denys twice. Just imagine what thrilling spectacles they are!

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