When the cricket was asked to leave the room, he wants to tell Pinocchio a ‘great truth.’ “Woe to those boys who revolt against their parents, and run away from home. One day Pinocchio returns home only to find a cricket occupying his room. “You scoundrel of a son! You are not even finished, and you already disobey your father. Geppetto who created Pinocchio out of a piece of wood gives his ‘son’ the first of his tongue lashing. Almost all the children behave erratically and they do not obey their parents. When I read Pinocchio as an adult, I find it as a moral tale, especially meant for children. Collodi remained a bachelor until his death in 1890. His father was a cook and his mother a domestic servant. Collodi did not enjoy international fame during his lifetime until the first English translation was published in 1892, two years after his death.Ĭollodi was born as Carlo Lorenzini in Florence, Italy in 1826. Its author Carlo Collodi wrote a great deal for children but ‘Pinocchio’ is the only one to be translated into English. ‘Pinocchio’ is Italy’s most popular fairy tale. His friends the Cricket and the Blue Fairy try to make him a real boy. During his adventurous life Pinocchio is robbed, imprisoned, chased by bandits, and narrowly escapes death. Whenever he does so, his nose grows longer.
However, Pinocchio turns out to be a disobedient child.
Geppetto calls him ‘Pinocchio’ meaning ‘pine-nut’ and brings him up as his son. It begins to walk, run and eat like a young boy. Geppetto’s puppet turns out to be cheeky and naughty. But when he sets to work something magical happens – the piece of wood begins to talk. Geppetto, an old woodcarver, who lives in an Italian village, receives a piece of wood which looks perfect for his next project, a puppet.
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