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About This Passage
These are the chapter's closing sentences and one of the great recognition scenes in the novel. Pinocchio gorges on the food the kind woman has given him, finally lifts his head to thank her, and is frozen in astonishment — fork in the air, mouth full — because she has the same blue hair as the Fairy he believed dead. Copying this passage gives the student a model of how a writer holds humor (the fork in the air) and tenderness (the recognition) in the same picture.
Pinocchio did not eat; he gorged. His little stomach was so empty that one would think he had not eaten for a week. Calming his hunger little by little, he raised his head in order to thank his benefa...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Retell Chapter 24 in four or five sentences. Begin with Pinocchio swimming through the storm and end with the moment he sees the woman's blue hair.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story shows you that Pinocchio's love for Geppetto is changing him? How can you tell from the all-night swim through the storm and from how he asks the Dolphin about his papa?
- How can you tell that the people of the Country of the Busy Bees believe in work? What in the words of the coal man and the bricklayer and the twenty others shows you their idea of how a town should run?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Ate greedily and quickly until completely full.
Item 2
A woman who gives help or kindness; here, the woman who feeds Pinocchio.
Item 3
Held still by surprise or strong feeling, unable to move.
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