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About This Passage
This is the chapter's first life-saving moment — the wooden body Pinocchio has been ashamed of becomes the body that breaks the knives. Copying it teaches you to notice how a writer can turn a weakness into a strength inside a single sentence, and contains the vocabulary words marionette, trembled, strokes, blades, and handles.
The marionette, seeing death staring him in the face, trembled; so that all his joints made a great noise and the four gold pieces jingled in his mouth. "Then," said the assassins, "will you open your...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Retell Chapter 15 in seven or eight sentences. Begin with Pinocchio about to give up, and walk through the candied house, the Baby with blue hair, the failed knife attack, the hanging on the Grand Oak, and his last call for his Papa.
Discussion Questions
- Pinocchio is about to give up when he sees the candied house 'shining afar' in the dark forest. What in the story makes the house feel like a sign of hope? How can you tell the writer wants the house to look almost too good to be true?
- The Baby with blue hair tells Pinocchio that everyone in the house is dead, including herself. What in the story makes you think she is telling the truth, and what makes you think she might be hiding something? Use what she does at the window as part of your evidence.
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
the strength of mind that lets a person face fear, danger, or hardship without giving up
Item 2
covered or made with sugar; in this chapter, a house that looks as if it were made of sweets
Item 3
willing to take a great risk because there is no other choice; almost out of hope
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