Pinocchio's Sister: A Feminist FableNot long after Geppetto made Pinocchio, he finds himself disappointed in the boy he looks on as his son. Pinocchio cheats, plays hooky from school, and lies to cover his selfishness and misdeeds. But his nose betrays him. Still, when Pinocchio runs away from home, Geppetto is broken-hearted. One day he is driven to make another marionette that turns out to be a girl he names Gelsomina. She is everything Pinocchio is not, generous, warm-hearted, eager to go to school and learn. Yet to his amazement, he finds that, in contrast to Pinocchio, Gelsomina's nose grows not when she tells a lie but only when she tells the truth. But Geppetto misses Pinocchio, so Gelsomina sets out to bring him home. How she does so is a magical and charming fairy tale of how goodness triumphs, in which Gelsomina saves Pinocchio's life, changes Geppetto's life for the better, and learns how to deal with telling the truth and lying until at last she becomes a real live girl, a daughter to Geppetto and a sister to Pinocchio. |
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Contents
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Section 3 | 14 |
Section 4 | 19 |
Section 5 | 24 |
Section 6 | 28 |
Section 7 | 34 |
Section 8 | 38 |
Section 15 | 78 |
Section 16 | 84 |
Section 17 | 91 |
Section 18 | 98 |
Section 19 | 102 |
Section 20 | 107 |
Section 21 | 116 |
Section 22 | 122 |
Section 9 | 44 |
Section 10 | 50 |
Section 11 | 55 |
Section 12 | 60 |
Section 13 | 67 |
Section 14 | 72 |
Section 23 | 126 |
Section 24 | 132 |
Section 25 | 141 |
Section 26 | 148 |
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