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About This Passage
This is the chapter's escape sequence — Pinocchio uses the wind-blown hat as a pretext, breaks toward the sea like 'a musket ball,' and the policemen answer by releasing a prize-winning bloodhound. The passage carries three of this lesson's vocabulary words (MARIONETTE, POLICEMEN, BLOODHOUND) and shows how quickly the chapter's situation has reversed — Pinocchio came to the beach to skip school, and now he is running from the law, with the hat between his teeth as a small image of the dignity he has just lost.
The marionette ran after it, but he did not put it on his head. He placed it between his teeth and then began to run toward the sea. He flew like a musket ball. The policemen, judging that they could ...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell back this chapter in three parts: the boys' confession that the dogfish was a trick and that they wanted Pinocchio to skip school; the fight on the beach and the moment Eugene is struck by the heavy arithmetic book; and Pinocchio's arrest by the policemen and his run for the sea with his hat between his teeth.
Discussion Questions
- When Pinocchio asks why the boys lied about the dogfish, they answer plainly: 'Because we wanted you to lose a day at school.' Then they say, 'the scholars who study are always compared with those who do not; and we do not like it.' What does this tell you about the real reason these boys wanted Pinocchio to skip school? What kind of friendship is this?
- An old Crab climbs out of the water and tries to stop the fight, saying, 'These battles between boys always end badly. Some misfortune is sure to happen.' Pinocchio answers, 'Oh, hush! ugly Crab. You would do better to eat some seaweed and cure that cold of yours.' What does Pinocchio's rude reply show about the kind of warning he is still unable to hear? Where else in the last two chapters has someone tried to warn him?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
In this story, a giant sea creature; the trick that brought the boys to the beach was a story about one.
Item 2
Students who study seriously; the boys complain that scholars who study make the lazy boys look bad.
Item 3
A group of voices speaking or singing together; here, all the boys answering Pinocchio at once.
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