HENDERSON THE RAIN KING I: THE LAND

rom Americas chaotic reality to "the magic never-land of Africa' ' : The setting of Henderson the Rain King is as multi-leveled and polyvalent as the other elements of the novel, such as plot, characters, style. America and Africa, respectively in the background and foreground of the narrator's consciousness, interact in his mind in such a way that, while in America (Chapters I to IV), Henderson is telling the reader all the time the reason why he is going to Africa, and while in Africa