THE ANALYSIS OF STORY
IN THE WOOD
BY
GUY MAUPASSANTS
Summary
In the morning with a newly rising sun, the mayor is savoring his morning breakfast with the smell of the forest and the coolness of the air. He enjoyed his breakfast and was so happy that day. But, suddenly, a policeman on duty at his residence came and reported something unbelievable. The case is about foreign people in their region. The mayor went straight to the two whose police had reported. A 60-years-old man and a 55-years-old woman.
When the mayor asked their identity. The mayor was shocked because oth of them are wife and husband. They answered all questions from the mayor. And his bodyguard explained what happened to the two strangers in the woods. The case will make their region become a bad area if all the society hear about the story. They caught out when kissing out at 10:00 this morning, in the deep of the wood area.
The mayor looked at the culprits in astonishment, for the man was certainly sixty, and the woman fifty-five at least, and he began to question them, beginning with the man, who replied in such a weak voice that he could scarcely be heard.
After the police explain, the mayor asked, "Who is this woman for you?" and the husband answer that she is his wife.
"She's my wife mayor" the mayor smiled, then asked again, "Do you live separately?" "No, we lived together in Paris. We were on vacation here and arrived at 9:00 this morning." The mayor now asked the man's wife, "Why are you here?" She replied, "In the early days, we arrived here. I tried to ask him to go here to remind us of our young moments when we didn't know each other. I missed those days, so I brought him here and I hope he doesn't think I'm a fool for doing this in my old age."
"I didn't know that he'd brought me here to do that." Husband answer honestly
"I knew you'd think I was stupid, so I deliberately didn't tell you" replied the woman without any fear.
The mayor please the woman to tell the story and the woman told the story. Along time ag when they were young both of them are camping together with other friends. They never met before then recognize each other in the wood.
"The next day we met Monsieur Beaurain at the railway station, and in those days he was good-looking, but I had made up my mind not to encourage him, and I did not. Well, we arrived at Bezons. It was a lovely day, the sort of day that touches your heart. When it is fine even now, just as it used to be formerly, I grow quite foolish, and when I am in the country I utterly lose my head. The green grass, the swallows flying so swiftly, the smell of the grass, the scarlet poppies, the daisies, all that makes me crazy. It is like champagne when one is not accustomed to it!
For several day, they enjoy their camping and felt very happy. They are falling in love in the wood. They always together in the woods. After camping had ended, they went back to their home. They love having a good way because they meet again and decide to marry.
And now, when they are old, they felt that their love decreases. The wife never wants it if they are busy with their job only and forget their story love. So, the woman has an idea to have a holiday with her husband in the wood. The mayor smiled and shook his head. "Now you go back to Paris and if you come back here again please be more discreet.”
Plot
After reading the story we can know that the plot from the story is a progressive plot. It tells a detailed story from In The Wood. The story begins when the mayor still enjoys his breakfast and a police officer comes to him and tells the case of two people from Paris that do something wrong in their area.
As the mayor was about to sit down to breakfast, word was brought to him that the rural policeman, with two prisoners, was awaiting him at the Hotel de Ville. He went there at once and found old Hochedur standing guard before a middleclass couple whom he was regarding with a severe expression on his face.
Exporition
The exposition is the introduction, the author tells the reader about the characteristics and identity of two person, a man and a woman from Paris. They caught by the police of residence.
The man, a fat old fellow with a red nose and white hair, seemed utterly dejected; while the woman, a little roundabout individual with shining cheeks, looked at the official who had arrested them, with defiant eyes.
Rising Action
The author talks about the problem, it is the story that both of them are kissing in the wood. The police chaugt them and bring them to the mayor’s place. Here the explanation.
The rural policeman made his deposition: He had gone out that morning at his usual time, in order to patrol his beat from the forest of Champioux as far as the boundaries of Argenteuil. He had not noticed anything unusual in the country except that it was a fine day, and that the wheat was doing well, when the son of old Bredel, who was going over his vines, called out to him: "Here, DaddyHochedur, go and have a look at the outskirts of the wood. In the first thicket you will find a pair of pigeons who must be a hundred and thirty years old between them!"
Climax
The climax from the story is when the woman did not feel that they had a problem, but the man felt that it was wrong. After that, the climax of the story is when they catch by police because they kissing in the wood.
Falling Action
The falling action from the story is when the mayor please them to tell the story and the woman and man explain about the problem. The wife told that when they were young, their love was love each other, but now the decrease because of their job is too busy. The wife only wants to make their love increase like before.
"Years ago, when I was young, I made Monsieur Beaurain's acquaintance one Sunday in this neighborhood. He was employed in a draper's shop, and I was a saleswoman in a ready-made clothing establishment. I remember it as if it were yesterday. I used to come and spend Sundays here occasionally with a friend of mine, Rose Leveque, with whom I lived in the Rue Pigalle, and Rose had a sweetheart, while I had none. He used to bring us here, and one Saturday he told me laughing that he should bring a friend with him the next day. I quiteunderstood what he meant, but I replied that it would be no good; for I was virtuous, monsieur.
"The next day we met Monsieur Beaurain at the railway station, and in those days he was good-looking, but I had made up my mind not to encourage him, and I did not. Well, we arrived at Bezons. It was a lovely day, the sort of day that touches your heart. When it is fine even now, just as it used to be formerly, I grow quite foolish, and when I am in the country I utterly lose my head. The green grass, the swallows flying so swiftly, the smell of the grass, the scarlet poppies, the daisies, all that makes me crazy. It is like champagne when one is not accustomed to it!
Resolution
Here he resolution from the story. It is when the Mayor laughed, he is hearing thecase and imagine about the story. Because they have made the mayor laugh, mayor please them to go home and be careful if they want to have a date in the woods.
"I felt quite young again when I got among the wheat, for a woman's heart never grows old! And really, I no longer saw my husband as he is at present, but just as he was formerly! That I will swear to you, monsieur. As true as I am standing here I was crazy. I began to kiss him, and he was more surprised than if I had tried to murder him. He kept saying to me: 'Why, you must be mad! You are mad this morning! What is the matter with you?' I did not listen to him, I only listened to my own heart, and I made him come into the wood with me. That is all. I have spoken the truth, Monsieur le Maire, the whole truth."
The mayor was a sensible man. He rose from his chair, smiled, and said: "Go in peace, madame, and when you again visit our forests, be more discreet."
POV
In The Wood by Guy De Maupassant is uses the third point of view because the author uses him, her, and them in the story as the plural of the story
The rural policeman made his deposition: He had gone out that morning at his usual time, in order to patrol his beat from the forest of Champioux as far as the boundaries of Argenteuil. He had not noticed anything unusual in the country except that it was a fine day, and that the wheat was doing well, when the son of old Bredel, who was going over his vines, called out to him:
"Here, Daddy Hochedur, go and have a look at the outskirts of the wood. In the first thicket you will find a pair of pigeons who must be a hundred and thirty years old between them!"
He went in the direction indicated, entered the thicket, and there he heard words which made him suspect a flagrant breach of morality.
Beside that, we can see by reading the following support sentences. We can see if it is third POV from sentence of the third POV.
Then Monsieur Beauain was seized with rage and turning to his wife, he said: "Do you see to what you have brought us with your poetry? And now we shall have to go before the courts at our age, for a breach of morals! And we shall have to shut up the shop, sell our good will, and go to some other neighborhood! That's what it has come to."
Madame Beaurain got up, and without looking at her husband, she explained herself without embarrassment, without useless modesty, and almost without hesitation.
"Of course, monsieur, I know that we have made ourselves ridiculous. Will you allow me to plead my cause like an advocate, or rather like a poor woman? And I hope that you will be kind enough to send us home, and to spare us the disgrace of a prosecution.
We can see, in this sentence, the author tells about them, it is support sentence of point of view. This is one of many characteristics of the third point of view.
Monsieur Beaurain, who was looking at his feet in confusion, did not reply, and she continued: "Then he saw that I was virtuous, and he began to make love to me nicely, like an honorable man, and from that time he came every Sunday, for he was very much in love with me. I was very fond of him also, very fond of him! He was a good-looking fellow, formerly, and in short he married me the next September, and we started in business in the Rue des Martyrs.
"It was a hard struggle for some years, monsieur. Business did not prosper, and we could not afford many country excursions, and, besides, we had got out of the way of them. One has other things in one's head, and thinks more of the cash box than of pretty speeches, when one is in business. We were growing old by degrees without perceiving it, like quiet people who do not think much about love. One does not regret anything as long as one does not notice what one has lost.
By reading the story, we can take a moral that we could be careful if we want to do anything. and Please increase our love if we feel it decreases.
References
Maupassant, Guy de. (1850).In The Wood. The Entire Original Maupassant Short Stories.