How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Out of Africa.
Quote #1
KAREN: I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
Karen repeats this line several times in the film, so you know it's important. It was the place where her life truly began.
Quote #2
KAREN: I want to see my house.
BROR: You may want to change. It's a two-hour ride.
Bror went to Kenya ahead of Karen to make arrangements and to purchase the land they were going to work, so it's not really home to Karen yet.
Quote #3
BROR: I didn't buy cattle. We're going to grow coffee instead.
KAREN: That's not what we planned.
BROR: You were in Denmark. I had to decide.
KAREN: We made a decision. We don't know anything about coffee.
BROR: You plant it, it grows.
KAREN: We said a dairy. My mother—
BROR: Your mother doesn't care if it's cows or coffee as long as it pays. You have to be with a herd or things go wrong. I didn't come to Africa to sit with silly cows. Just tell her we changed our minds.
Everyone knows that coffee won't grow well here, which disconnects Karen further from her new "home." It's going to be a lot harder to make it feel like home when it's totally in the wrong place to begin with.