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4. Extension to Literature
Liar Liar Pants of Fire: The Story of Pinocchio
After reading the story of the Prince with the Nose, when you think of big noses, what is the first character that comes to your mind? Pinocchio!
Everyone has heard of Pinocchio, the famous Italian puppet with the growing nose that had the bad habit of lying and getting into trouble. Moms today still tease their children after they been caught in a lie by telling them that their nose is going to grow like Pinocchio’s.
You have most probably seen the movie version Disney made in 1940, but there are almost a dozen different Pinocchio films, several musicals, and even a radio show. But how did Pinocchio start? What was the origin of what would end up being the most famous puppet in the world?
Carlo Collodi
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Pinocchio was first created in “The
Adventures of Pinocchio,” a children’s
book written by Carlo Lorenzini, using the
pen-name “Carlo Collodi,” in Florence,
Italy. The first half was published as a series between 1881 and 1882, each part coming out weekly in “Il Giornale per I Bambini,” which was the first Italian newspaper for children, but the second part was published completely. These two were later joined into one whole volume. There is a big difference between these two parts: the Blue Fairy. In the last chapter of the first part, Pinocchio dies, hanged because of all the bad choices and bad things he did. Since his editor liked the story so much, Lorenzini added the second half, in which the “Fairy with the Turquoise Hair” (called the Blue Fairy in the Disney movie) rescues him, and later turns him into a real boy. In the first half of the story, Geppetto is what represents Pinocchio’s family, but in the second half, he is almost entirely replaced by the turquoise-haired Fairy.
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