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This is the moment the whole book has been pointing toward — Pinocchio waking up not made of wood but made of boy. Collodi calls out to the reader directly so the surprise is shared, and then he piles up the small ordinary things (a furnished room, a new suit, a new cap, new shoes) that mean the magic has spilled into real life. Copying this passage helps a young reader feel the gentle wonder of an ending where being good has finally turned the wooden body into a body that grows and gets dressed and walks to school.
Now imagine, little readers, the great surprise of Pinocchio, upon waking, to find that he was no longer a wooden marionette, but that he had become a boy like all the others! He gave a glance around ...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell the story of this last chapter from the moment Pinocchio swims with Geppetto on his back to the moment he wakes up as a real boy. Be sure to include the Tunny who came back, the Fox and Cat who lost everything, the Talking Cricket in the little house, the donkey Lamp Wick, the Snail with news of the Fairy, the forty cents, and the new suit Pinocchio finds in the morning.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story shows that Pinocchio kept being kind even when he was very tired? How do you know that he took care of his papa for a long, long time?
- How can you tell that the Fox and Cat were sorry they had lied to people? What did Pinocchio say to them about stolen money?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
made of wood; for the whole book Pinocchio has been a wooden marionette, but at the end of this chapter he stops being wooden.
Item 2
dry yellow grass used to make beds for animals; Pinocchio prepares a bed of straw for his papa, but in the morning the straw is gone.
Item 3
a part of a house with walls and a door; when Pinocchio wakes up he sees a beautiful new room instead of the little house he went to sleep in.
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