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How does Pinocchio come to life?
Unlike later adaptations of the story, in the original The Adventures of Pinocchio, the titular puppet is not brought to life by a magic spell or anything like that. Rather, he is already alive from the very first moment which readers hear of him. The fact that Pinocchio can speak and feel pain even before he is fashioned into a puppet by Geppetto suggests that the world of Pinocchio is not simply a normal one with a few magical elements added in, but an entirely, fundamentally magical one.
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What are Geppetto's motivations for fashioning Pinocchio into a wooden puppet?
In later adaptations of Pinocchio, Geppetto's...
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