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About This Passage
This is the chapter's frightening turning point — the assassins, unable to cut Pinocchio open, hang him on a tree they name. Copying it teaches the careful pacing of a hard moment in a story and shows how a writer slows down at the worst part rather than rushing through it. The passage contains the vocabulary words noose, branch, and kick.
They bound his hands and, slipping a noose around his throat, hanged him to a branch of a tree called the Grand Oak. Then they sat down on the ground, waiting until the marionette should make his last...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell the chapter back in your own words in five or six sentences. Begin with Pinocchio seeing the white house far away in the forest. End with what he says about his Papa right before the chapter closes.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story shows that Pinocchio was very afraid when he saw the candied house in the forest? How do you know he was running for his life and not just running for fun?
- The Baby with blue hair tells Pinocchio that everyone in the house is dead, and that she is dead too. What makes you think she is telling the truth, and what makes you think she might not be? Look at what she does at the window for clues.
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
a building where someone lives
Item 2
a large place full of trees growing close together
Item 3
a very young child; in this chapter, a strange Baby who looks like a wax doll
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