#Out of Africa# A white woman's testimony to the colonial era in Africa #

This book has been thunderous since my youth, and it was not until I recently watched the movie of the same name that I wanted to find a glimpse of the book.

I admire the screenwriter's brain hole very much: in the movie, there is a plot of the heroine getting syphilis (contagious from her troubled husband); there is a long-term intimate relationship with a male friend under the existence of the marriage relationship, of course, her husband cheated first, and then she was driven out of the African farm, and finally it can be said that the marriage relationship ended peacefully; her union with her husband was not because of love, but because of the requirements of Danish law and the title on her husband, (no matter what era and which country the woman is in, Both implicitly or explicitly take what husband to marry as the comparison standard)... I haven't seen any of this in the book, and maybe the screenwriters have read a lot about the author, Karen. Brixen's (Denmark)'s book decided to make a movie based on the emotional life of the author in the book, which is almost impossible to find with a magnifying glass, as a gimmick. Women always focus on love over war.

As I get older, my reading taste will change, and the hungry "Jane Eyre" and "Pride and Prejudice" when I was in school are like the hormones of youth in the past, which can now be classified as silly white sweet novels, but at that time, I was in need of such books at that age, and they comforted my unmoving hormones, physical and mental needs. What is needed now is the psychological guidance of mature women.

This book tells a lot about not her achievements, but the Africans she came into contact with in her life, from chiefs, to sharecroppers, servants, cooks, housekeepers... She can call out the names of her sharecropper's children, in Africa you can marry many wives if you have enough cattle, she buys that land, so the sharecroppers on this land have to work on the farm for 180 days for free if they want to live on this land, she has to mediate the disputes between the sharecroppers, she has to worry about the lack of precipitation in africa, she has to worry about the lack of precipitation in Africa, she has to worry about the locust plague, she has to worry about the coffee beans being shipped to the London market for auction at a lower and lower price, she has to communicate with Africans who think differently about her to solve things...

On this African continent, she enjoyed the sacred scenery, the fierce animals of the African continent and the peaceful animals, there is no gentle wild animal in Africa, there is only food and prey, living in harmony, no one will be wiped out and extinct, no animal is at the top of the food chain.

In this book, what I feel more is the author's sympathy for the disadvantaged people, maybe you are in a relatively high position, and then it will be easier to give sympathy and assistance to people who are not as good as you. As a vested interest, she has ownership of this African land, but at the same time she also has doubts, this is the land that Africans have been born and raised for generations, how did it become to expel these indigenous people, or only a small so-called nature reserve to confine people to it, this is the history of that colonial era.

Although the author is dead, she and her story have survived and are forever sealed in that African land in that time and space. You can faintly smell the green grass of the white mist on an African summer morning.