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This is the bridge between dream and waking — the Fairy's pardon spoken in sleep, the eyes opening wide, the wooden body gone. Collodi places the moral verdict ('Boys that help their parents lovingly in their troubles always deserve praise and affection') inside the dream and the physical transformation immediately after, so the reader can see the inner change and the outer change in the same paragraph. Copying this passage trains attention to how Collodi organizes his climax: the kiss, the pardon, the awakening, and the discovery placed in close sequence so the cause and the effect cannot be separated.
And while he slept he thought he saw the good Fairy, all beautiful and happy and smiling, who, after giving him a kiss, said: "Good Pinocchio! For your good heart I pardon all your misdeeds. Boys that...
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Narration Prompt
Retell chapter thirty-six from the moment Pinocchio swims with Geppetto on his back to the moment he sees his old wooden self leaning on a chair. Be sure to include the Tunny's reciprocal rescue, the ruined Fox and Cat, the Talking Cricket and the blue Goat's gift, the donkey Lamp Wick, the five months of labor, the Snail's news, the forty cents, the dream of the Fairy, and Geppetto restored to youth.
Discussion Questions
- The Tunny rescues Pinocchio in the open sea by saying, 'I followed your example. You taught me the way; and after I saw you go, I went also.' How does this rescue invert the Tunny's earlier philosophy of resignation, and what does the inversion say about how bravery propagates between creatures?
- Pinocchio answers the begging Fox and Cat with three proverbs about stolen goods rather than with anger or pity. What kind of moral register has he entered by speaking inherited common-sense wisdom? How does the choice of proverbs over personal grievance signal his maturation?
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warm feeling of care and tenderness toward another person; the dream-Fairy tells Pinocchio that boys who help their parents lovingly in their troubles 'always deserve praise and affection.'
Item 2
filled with deep embarrassment or shame; Pinocchio is mortified when the farmer laughs at the idea of having had a donkey for a school companion.
Item 3
pretended, simulated for the purpose of deceit; the chapter notes that the Cat 'who feigned to be blind had really become so' — the pretense has become reality.
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