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About This Passage
This is the climax of the Cricket's warning — a tight back-and-forth that captures Pinocchio's stubbornness and the Cricket's prophetic last words. Copying it builds attention to dialogue rhythm and to the way Collodi uses repetition ("I want to go on") as a refrain that exposes Pinocchio's hardened will. The passage contains the vocabulary words dangerous, repent, and assassins.
"The road is dangerous." "I want to go on." "Remember that boys who always do what they want to will sooner or later repent." "The same old story! Good night. Cricket." "Good night, and may Heaven sav...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Retell Chapter 13 in 5–7 sentences. Begin with the three travelers arriving at the Red Lobster Inn and end with the Cricket disappearing. Include what the Fox and Cat actually do at midnight and what the Cricket warns Pinocchio about.
Discussion Questions
- How can you tell from the descriptions of their meals that the Fox and Cat are not really sick or injured? What in the chapter shows you that their 'illnesses' are part of the same act they put on in Chapter 12?
- Pinocchio's dream is of grape-arbors where the grapes have turned into gold pieces that make a noise in the wind. What makes you think Collodi gave him this exact dream? What does the dream reveal about what is now controlling Pinocchio's mind?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
feeling slightly unwell or unable to do something
Item 2
left a place; went away
Item 3
felt about with the hands because one cannot see clearly
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