What
is inside of Pinocchio? Though we are led to believe that he is
solid wood, the fact that he
doesn’t float
in water problematizes this assumption. In order to be weighed down
enough to swim in the water,
rather than float on top, there would need to be something inside
of him countering his
wooden shell.
Indeed, when he becomes a real boy, his
puppet-self is described as having
been shed to uncover a real body -- one would assume with real organs.
Seemingly, since the puppet-self is described as something that
Pinocchio sheds to become a real boy, then one would assume all of
the real boy "materials" were there all along, underneath the wooden
shell.
Pinocchio’s ability to swim in water
seems to suggest that these organs may have been there all along. Were
they?
If so, how did they get there?
