Genre

Mythic memoir; colonial travel literature

Narrator

Baroness Karen Blixen

Point Of View

First Person

Tone

Usually light and storytelling until the final section when it turns melancholic

Tense

Past tense

Protagonist

Baroness Karen Blixen

Major Conflict

The narrator's struggle to keep her coffee farm

Rising Action

Attempts to grow coffee; Arrival of Old Knudsen; Hunting expeditions in Africa; Accidental shooting between boys; Visitors on the Farm

Climax

The realization that the narrator must sell her farm

Falling Action

Selling of farm; Death of Denys Finch-Hatton; Death of Chief Kinanjui; Departure from Africa

Foreshadowing

Predictions of Denys' death; Statement that the farm was too high to grow coffee; Seeing a herd of wild dogs; Account of the giraffe being shipped to Europe