The second time was when Karen knelt down and begged the newly arrived Governor of Kenya to give her the land that the indigenous people could live in. She said that I had lost everything anyway, and I didn't care about my face anymore. When someone tried to pull her up, he heard the voice of Dennis who had not seen her for a long time begging for her. Later she said, "I seem to have to do everything in order to get your attention."
Dennis didn't belong to any woman until he died. He was always in a free and comfortable wandering until the fire broke his wings. Perhaps, there was a moment when Karen had won him, as she said, after losing everything, but no one could defeat fate. Her possession is fleeting. She was sitting in his pile of books waiting for him to fly the plane to take her to Mombasa, waiting for news of his death.
He was not ours. He was not mine.
If youth comes later, it will be the most perfect time. If death comes earlier, it will also be the most perfect death. Not dying of chronic illness, not dying of old age, dying in bed, but dying at the age of prosperity and strength, dying at the time when wisdom and dignity are still alive, will he be satisfied with such a non-stop adventurer and traveler like Vinci Hatton?
Or, after being so missed and reminisced in Karen's pen, will he still have any regrets?
"Denys had wathched and followed all the ways of the African Highlands, and better than any other white man, he had known their soil and seasons, the vegetation and the wild animals, the winds and smells. He had observed the changes of weather in them,their people,clouds,the stars at night.Here in the hills,I had seen him only a short time ago,standing bare-headed in the afternoon sun,gazing out over the land,and lifting his field-glasses to find out everything about it.He had taken in the country,and in his eyes and his mind it had been changed,marked by his own individuality,and made part of him.Now Africa received him,and would change him,and make him one with herself."
Karen's narrative, the part about Dennis's death in Out of Africa, is basically not similar to the movie. She learned of her death in Nairobi (not her ex-husband to inform her as in the movie). Dennis’ cemetery was previously agreed by him and Karen. It was originally the place where Karen hoped to bury her bones. If she could die in Kenya, once she told Dennis to listen to him, and he said that he would also bury it. There. So there is "Let's drive to our cemetery" later in the article. After the plane crash, Karen remembered the old things. She immediately started the site selection, excavation and leveling of the cemetery. It was Friday. Dennis died while leaving Foy Airport in the morning before returning to her manor. The remains were scheduled for It was transported back from Foyi on Friday the next day and buried at noon. Together with her friends and servants who drove back from Nairobi with her, she went up the mountain early in the morning. The sky was beautiful that day, and the non-stop rain turned into drizzle, and it cleared in time. Dennis’s friends drove from all over the place, dusty and muddy, and there were also Somalis who came spontaneously, riding in mule carts, in groups of two. The funeral was solemn and sad and complete. After that, the mourning in the manor continued for another seven days. Her servants, his friends, hunters, gunmen, motorcycle drivers... After Karen left Africa, Dennis’ elder brother, Earl Winchilsea, erected a square in front of his grave. The obelisk. The copper plaque on the stele is engraved with a verse from Coleridge’s "Song of the Ancient Navigator": He prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast. His old classmates at Eaton also helped him. A stone bridge was built in the middle of the two cricket courts, on which was inscribed "the famous people on the field, the beloved by many friends. Denys Finch Hatton, 1900-1906". The soft landscapes of England and the high mountains of Africa connected the traces of his life. In the visual illusion, it suddenly turned, and the surrounding scene changed. The bowstring was released from Eaton's bridge, and the arrow traced its orbit, hitting the stele on Mount Ngong.
Denys Finch Hatton represents the spirit of the most remarkable British and British people of his time. Although he died, he lived a life worthwhile. He has seen many things. He has a good knowledge of the customs of the African land. He has traveled through Kenya. Every path in his life is familiar with the plants and animals that grow in it. He uses life experience and adventure, and he finally merges with this hot land. Like his best friend Berkeley Cole, he also loves the people rooted in this land, understands and respects them, and treats them like real friends. He is respected in the world and will be missed after death.
Robert Redford is a good actor. He has tried his best to get close to Denys's looks and spiritual qualities. Although he is not like Denys himself, his age is too far away when he starred in Out of Africa. At that time, he was nearly 50 years old and his youth was no longer wrinkled. Show. Regrettably, the two temperaments are too far apart. What Redford showed is the wild and unruly American western style. Even if it is chic, it is by no means the British aristocratic chic. You can’t feel that he is acting as a man. An Englishman who had gone to Eton and Oxford, a son of a British nobleman living in Africa.
Denys met Karen for the first time in the final year of World War I. He was born in 1887. When he was a student at Eton College, he was full of talents among his peers, and he was promoted to Oxford University together with the proud sons of these days. But when Denys fought in Egypt, many of his outstanding classmates were already buried in the bloody Gallipoli and Western Front battlefields. Denys is the second son of Earl XIII of Winchilsea. In the film, his best friend, Berkeley Cole, who has a Somali lover, is the youngest son of Earl IV of Enniskillen. He participated in the Boer War and accompanied the East African Lancers in the First World War. Mounted Rifles, EAMR). He has a farm near Nyeri. Karen's Letters from Africa first mentioned him in late 1923, ten years after she first came to Kenya. He and Denys visited her several times back then, sometimes alone. Karen said, "Berkeley is a very amiable person, full of vitality and unique insights...he is an interesting conversation partner...he is very interested in the politics of this country; he is an old friend of the Masai and a Somali. The mighty protector..." (Letters from Africa, October 4, 1923). In August 1924 she said that the possibility of marrying him did not appeal to her, although she liked him very much. If she hadn't said that she wanted to get married and not want to live alone, it would be difficult to understand why she had this idea. He died of heart failure in early 1925, probably caused by rheumatic fever he had suffered in his early years, rather than as stated in the movie, he died of Blackwater fever.
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