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About This Passage
This sentence shows the moment Fire Eater’s heart finally melts. He starts ‘hard and cold as a piece of ice,’ and then he sneezes four or five times — the secret sign of his soft heart — and asks for a kiss. The chapter wants the young reader to see that brave deeds can change scary people, and that some people who look terrifying are kinder than they look.
Fire Eater at first remained hard and cold as a piece of ice; but afterward he slowly began to show symptoms of being moved and of sneezing. After having sneezed four or five times, he held out his ar...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell the story of Chapter 11 in your own words. Start with Fire Eater sneezing, tell what he wanted to do to Harlequin, and end with Pinocchio offering himself instead.
Discussion Questions
- Fire Eater sneezes when his heart feels soft. What in the story shows that he tried not to sneeze, and how do you know he was trying to hide his kind feelings?
- Pinocchio jumped up and said, ‘Bind me and throw me into the flames’ to save Harlequin. What makes you think Pinocchio was being brave instead of being scared?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Hot bright flames that burn wood.
Item 2
Hair that grows on a man’s chin and face.
Item 3
Doing the right thing even when you feel scared.
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