Pinocchio In Fun-Land
"Come back here!" the man shouted. "Come back and we'll make all your boyhood dreams come true!" That was the sing-song voice of the beginning stages of madness… or perhaps the realization of madness.
Pinocchio was quite sure he would not be coming back, what with his donkey transformation halfway complete… one more thing would surely push him over the edge..
... but wait a minute! I'm getting ahead of myself.
As a narrator, it is my duty to see that the reader know what I'm talking about.
Well, as most of us know, the tale of the little wooden boy begins in a small Italian village with a puppet-maker: Gepetto. He had just finished making a puppet.
Now Gepetto always wanted a son, but with the death of his wife many years ago, that was an impossibility. He had loved her so much that he never married again, instead, he delved further into his work carving beautiful puppets such as the little village had never seen. But this one, this one he imagined what his little boy would look like had Fiorella, his wife bore him one. Her dark eyes, her slender arms, his nose, his sturdy legs, her chin…..this little boy would have all that.
He set the little puppet aside and named him Pinocchio. Gepetto had also wished in his heart that he made a real boy instead of just another puppet.
At the stroke of midnight, the Blue Fairy had come.
The Blue Fairy was the re-incarnation of Fiorella. This time around, she had blonde hair and blue eyes, quite the opposite of her non-magical life. Though the faery-faer of Italy had not deemed it fair and fit that such a lovely and loving creature should never live again. So they picked the most….unpleasant fairy, to give her body so that Fiorella may inhabit it.
Seeing the puppet, considering who made it, she decided to give it a chance at life. She longed to see it laugh, play in the sunlight as other boys do… But then, she thought, Other little boys also lie, steal, and hurt each other… Eureka!
She brought the little boy to life on one condition: "…if you are a good boy, I will make you real. But if you are bad, you will remain a talking puppet forever. You will see Gepetto, your father grow older and older..you will see him die before your very eyes and walk this lonely world alone. Are we understood?"
She was disappearing when she heard a faint yes.
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Gepetto was a great father. Teaching little Pinocchio right from wrong was no easy task however. The Blue Fairy, seeing this, decided to give him a conscience in the form of a cricket. His name was Jiminy. This worked out great until one day; two people tricked Pinocchio into being their slave.
Through a series of mysterious workings, Pinocchio escaped the puppet show to a place that was magical to him. A place where there were no rules, no consequences it seemed. But just because there seems to be no consequences, doesn't mean that they could be the direst of them all…