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Analysis Of Pinocchio

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The stasis of Pinocchio is introduced when the movie opens with a small personificated “cricket” named Jiminy sitting in a library starts singing “When You Wish Upon A Star” and tells us that he never believed in wishes coming true. In this fairy tale world, Jiminy is given characteristics of a human being by being able to stand on two legs and having two arms. Jiminy also has the ability to run, walk, jump and talk like a human being. After telling us that he never believed in wishes coming true, Jiminy opens a fairy tale book titled Pinocchio, and tells us the story of Pinocchio that makes him believe otherwise. As Jiminy tells us the story, the camera zooms into the first page of the book and shows us a quiet, small, and unnamed village during a beautiful night with stars shining like diamonds over the town. As Jiminy wanders around the quiet streets, there isn’t a single person to be seen and it seemed like a ghost town. The only sign of life is a lively window where lights could be seen in the shop of a woodcarver named Geppetto. This intrigues Jiminy to sneak his way through a tiny door crack in Geppetto’s house, which is located near the middle of this unnamed village, and everything seems happy and peaceful/in order. Being a woodcarver, Geppetto’s works of puppetry, dolls and other wooden toys/furnitures can be seen all inside his house and he has a pet cat named Figaro and a pet fish named Cleo. Geppetto just carved a puppet named Pinocchio and before falling

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