Pinocchio

Walt Disney Series II Pinocchio

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In this series I will tell you some stories

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Language skills, Listening skills, Narrative skills, Vocabulary, and Comprehensive abilities

The Second of this series is

Pinocchio

Pinocchio

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Jiminy Cricket, the great traveler, was looking for somewhere to spend the night.

He found his way to the workshop of the old wood carver, Geppetto. Once inside,

Jimmy noticed a wooden puppet carved in the likeness of a little boy.

The puppet was nearly finished: only its eyebrows and mouth were missing.

At that moment, Jiminy heard someone coming downstairs and slipped out of sight.

It was Geppetto coming down to put the final touches to the puppet.

He carefully painted on eyebrows and a wide smiling mouth.

“I think we shall call him Pinocchio” Geppetto said to his companions Figaro the kitten and Cleo the Goldfish.

Then he said goodnight to the puppet.

Before Geppetto went to sleep he saw the wishing star, and he wished that Pinocchio could become a real boy.

Later Jiminy saw the blue fairy arrive! She said:

“Little Puppet, the gift of the life is thine.” Pinocchio stretched his arms and legs

“I am alive” he exclaimed. “Prove yourself brave, truthful and unselfish” the Blue Fairy told him. “and someday you’ll turn into a real boy”

Then she discovered Jiminy Cricket: “Pinocchio must know right from wrong! Jiminy Cricket.

I name you Pinocchio’s conscience! And with that she disappeared.

The noise woke Geppetto up and he went downstairs. He was overjoyed when he saw that Pinocchio had become alive. Geppetto said:

“Tomorrow you must go to school to learn things and become a real little boy”

The next day on his way to school, Pinocchio was spotted by two scoundrels. They wanted Pinocchio to join a puppet theatre.

Pinocchio was very interested and wouldn’t listen to Jiminy Cricket who told him not to go.

That evening Pinocchio sang and danced at the puppet theatre.

He got a bit tangled up with the other puppets’ strings. But the audience roared with laughter and clapped. After the show Pinocchio was very proud.

“I want to go and tell my father” he said.

“You are not going anywhere” the puppet-master told Pinocchio, and then he threw poor Pinocchio into the cage.

Jiminy found Pinocchio in the cage, and suddenly the blue fairy appeared. “Why didn’t you go to school?” she asked. Pinocchio told a lie and each time he told the fairy a new lie, his nose grew longer.

Finally Pinocchio said: “I’ll never lie again”

On hearing this, the fairy turned his nose back to normal. Before she vanished, she opened the cage and Pinocchio and Jiminy rushed out and hurried toward Geppetto’s house.

But Pinocchio never made it back to Geppetto. He met the two scoundrels again.

They convinced him that a visit to the Pleasure Island was just what he needed. The two scoundrels put Pinocchio on a coach.

It was loaded with excited boys, eager for fun and amusement. As the coach rolled off, Jiminy Cricket managed to slip on. “Go home” he told Pinocchio.

But Pinocchio was too taken with the tales of fun to pay attention to his conscience.

On Pleasure Island, the coachman cried: “Go on and enjoy yourselves, boys! You can do as you like on Pleasure Island.

Nothing is forbidden! Pinocchio and the other boys ran off excitedly.

They couldn’t wait to try out all the merry-go-rounds and eat the candies and ice-cream.

But to himself the coach-men crackled cruelly: “Little bad boys have a nasty surprise coming”.

Jiminy Cricket was looking for his friends. He finally found Pinocchio playing billiards with a boy. Jiminy scolded: “This is wrong”

But Pinocchio wouldn’t listen. Just then Pinocchio began growing donkey ears and tails. “Let’s go” cried Jiminy

He and Pinocchio ran to the sea and they swam away from that terrible place.

They hurried home to Geppetto, but he and Cleo and Figaro had been swallowed by a whale. When Pinocchio heard this, he was determined to save his father.

He and Jiminy found the whale, and the whale swallowed them as well. “Father it’s me” cried the little puppet.

Geppetto was very happy to see Pinocchio and hugged him in delight.

Together they tried to figure out how to escape the whale.

Suddenly Pinocchio got an idea. They made a big fire to make the whale sneeze and popped them out.

Once out of the whale, a wave rose up in the water, washing them ashore.

They were all safe, except for Pinocchio. They found him in the water lying face down, limp and lifeless. Broken-hearted Geppetto took him home.

As he knelt by Pinocchio’s bed, a light filled the work-shop, and the voice of the Blue Fairy was heard.

“You have been very brave. The gift of life is thine. You are a real boy now, Pinocchio”.

Pinocchio looked at his human hands and felt delight. Geppetto couldn’t believe his happiness. Pinocchio- a real boy!

He hugged him, tightly and danced around the workshop. As for Jiminy, his mission as Pinocchio’s conscience was over, and quietly slipped away.

Pinocchio (IT: [piˈnɔkkjo]; UK: /pɪˈnəʊkiəʊ/;[1] US: /pɪˈnoʊkioʊ/) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the 1883 children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, an Italian writer, and has since appeared in many adaptations of that story and others.

Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village, he was created as a wooden puppet but dreamed of becoming a real boy. He has also been used as a character who is prone to telling lies and fabricating stories for various reasons.

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