Though Pinocchio is not a real boy until the last Chapter of Collodi’s tale, on the Island of Busy Bees in Chapter XXV, the Blue Fairy says that Pinocchio has not grown up “[b]ecause puppets never grow. They are born as puppets, they live as puppets, and they dies as puppets.” But regular puppets do not live or die. What is the Blue Fairy talking about?

Maybe Pinocchio’s fear of death is not irrational, since he is not a regular puppet with no life.

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