Tales Being a Good CitizenChild

No children’s story in all of Western literature more powerfully impresses upon its reader or listener what I have been saying about the "office" of being a good child than Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio. When I teach Pinocchio in the college classroom, some students quickly make the observation that Pinocchio lacks a strong parental figure, that in practical terms he is an orphan. But other students are quick to challenge this interpretation and point out that although Pinocchio and Geppetto are separated through most of the story, the carpenter who has made the puppet is an important parent figure.
· Nosy Cchio [BreakPoint]