Analysis of Beyond the Bayou
Analysis of the short story Beyond the Bayou. Explore and discuss the attributes courage and self-realization. I want the thesis to either be or contain the following: In the short story “Beyond the Bayou” by
Kate Chopin, Jackeline (La Folle) demonstrated how the love you feel for one person could be the strongest motivation to be courageous and the clearest path to self-
realization. It doesn’t have to be specifically like that, but somewhere close. A thesis statement that clearly identifies the title of a story, its author, the theme,
and what the paper will discuss about the story and the theme. Write clear topic sentences for paragraphs that let the reader know what the paragraph will discuss.
Write paragraphs that explain how the examples from the story support the theme. Arrange a paper by presenting paragraphs in a logical and interesting fashion. Write
sentences in standard American English that clearly express ideas. Demonstrate the MLA style of formatting in the layout of a paper. Demonstrate the MLA style of
formatting by documenting material from the story within the paper and on a Work Cited page.
The bayou curved like a crescent around the point of land on which La Folle’s cabin stood. Between the stream and the hut lay a big abandoned field, where cattle were pastured when the bayou supplied them with water enough. Through the woods that spread back into unknown regions the woman had drawn an imaginary line, and past this circle she never stepped. This was the form of her only mania.
She was now a large, gaunt black woman, past thirty-five. Her real name was Jacqueline, but every one on the plantation called her La Folle, because in childhood she had been frightened literally “out of her senses,” and had never wholly regained them.
It was when there had been skirmishing and sharpshooting all day in the woods. Evening was near when P’tit Maitre, black with powder and crimson with blood, had staggered into the cabin of Jacqueline’s mother, his pursuers close at his heels. The sight had stunned her childish reason.
