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This is the chapter’s emotional hinge. Geppetto comes through the window angry, ready to whip a runaway, and the moment he sees the truth he caresses him instead. Copying the words ‘angry,’ ‘sorry,’ ‘gently,’ ‘caress,’ and ‘sob’ trains the ear for how Collodi turns a discipline scene into a mercy scene in five clauses.
At first he was very angry, but when he saw Pinocchio really stretched out on the floor without any feet, he felt sorry, and he took him gently by the neck and began to caress him. Swallowing a big so...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Retell Chapter 7 in five or six sentences. Be sure to include why Pinocchio could not open the door, the lie he told about the cat, how Geppetto entered the house, what Geppetto did when he saw the burned feet, and the lesson of the pears.
Discussion Questions
- Pinocchio blames the cat for eating his feet — his first real lie in the novel. Why do you think Pinocchio reaches for a lie at this exact moment, and what does the choice of ‘the cat’ (sitting right there with a piece of wood) tell us about how a child’s first lies usually work?
- Collodi writes that Geppetto came in ‘very angry,’ then ‘felt sorry,’ then ‘took him gently by the neck and began to caress him.’ What is Collodi teaching about the difference between a parent’s first feeling and a parent’s real love?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Walking or moving unsteadily, as if about to fall.
Item 2
To trick someone into believing something that is not true.
Item 3
To touch someone gently and lovingly.
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