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This passage shows Collodi’s gift for pacing cruelty and consequence in one unbroken rush. A Trailblazer copying these sentences learns how a writer can take a reader from insult (the bucket) to weariness (the drowned rat, the weak body) to quiet disaster (the feet becoming cinders while Pinocchio snores on).
Pinocchio, who had not yet a hat, approached and was nearly drowned by a great deluge of water that the old man poured down on him from a large bucket. He returned home like a drowned rat, weak from h...
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Narration Prompt
Retell Chapter 6 in four or five sentences. Be sure to include why Pinocchio went to the town, what happened at the window, why his feet burned, and whose voice finally came to the door.
Discussion Questions
- Collodi writes that Pinocchio’s “hunger was greater than his fear.” What does this line tell us about how desperate Pinocchio has become — and what does it foreshadow about choices he will make when he is starving?
- The old man in the nightcap believed Pinocchio was one of the “bad boys who go around at night worrying people by ringing their bells.” How does this wrong assumption change the meaning of the bucket of water — is it cruelty, caution, or both?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Made the loud rumbling noise of a storm in the sky.
Item 2
Flashed with lightning; grew suddenly bright.
Item 3
Made a high, piercing sound, the way wind does through cracks and trees.
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