“The Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi Essay Example

of his friend, Harlequin. Fire-eater gives Pinocchio five pieces of gold to take to his father, but Pinocchio is deceived by the fox and the cat and goes way with them.

Pinocchio does not listen to the good advice of the talking cricket which tells him to go back home again and meets the assassins. The assassins follow Pinocchio and having caught him. They hang him on a branch of the big oak tree. Luckily, a beautiful blue-haired child saves the puppet. She puts him in bed and calls three doctors to know whether he is alive or dead. The doctors give him some medicines and sugar. Pinocchio only eats the sugar, but he does not want to take the medicines. However when he sees the grave-diggers coming to carry him away, he akes it.

After that, he tells a lie and his nose will grow longer as punishment. Pinocchio again sees the fox and the cat and goes with them to sow his money in the Field of Miracles, where doubles the money he sows. At last, he loses all his money and he is sent to prison where he spends four mouths. When Pinocchio is freed from the prison he sets out for the fairys house, but on the way he meets a horrible serpent and afterwards he is caught in a trap. Pinocchio is captured by a peasant who makes him work as a watchdog for his poultry yard.

At the mid-night, he discovers the thieves and as a reward for his faithfulness, he is set free. After he arrives to the fairys house, he finds that the fairy has dead. He

weeps for the death of the beautiful blue-haired child. Then he meets a pigeon who carries him to the seashore where he dives into the water to save his father. He arrives at a Busy Bee Island and finds the fairy again. Pinocchio promises the fairy to be good and study, because he is tired of being a puppet and wishes to become a really good boy.