The Adventures of Pinocchio — Chapter 10

About This Passage

This is the happiest sentence Pinocchio has had in many chapters. He is jumping over chairs and audience members because the wooden marionettes have called him ‘brother.’ Read the sentence and feel how the jumps come faster and faster — each jump is a child running toward a family he did not know he had. Collodi gives Pinocchio this whole moment of joy on purpose, because the next big man through the door is going to want to burn him for firewood. The chapter is teaching us that joy and danger can sit very close together.

Narration Prompt

Tell back the story of Chapter 10 in your own words. Be sure to say: what Pinocchio saw on the stage, how the marionettes greeted him, who came out of the kitchen with the long black beard, and why Pinocchio cried out for his Papa.

Discussion Questions

1. What in the story shows you that Harlequin and the other marionettes loved Pinocchio right away, even though they had never met him before? Find words from the story that prove how they felt.
2. How do you know from the story that the manager of the theater frightened Pinocchio and the other marionettes? Tell about his beard, his eyes, and his whip in your own words.

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