Pinocchio Essays

  • Pinocchio

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    Adventures of Pinocchio, delivers the perfect collaboration of this ethical message on adolescence and an accurate propinquity to the lives of children. Pinocchio, the wooden puppet and nose-growing misfit, becomes easily astray from his morals and encounters many disastrous events. Geppetto, hopeless father of Pinocchio, makes many sacrifices for Pinocchio, but Pinocchio displays the natural attribute of an adolescent which is self-centeredness. This particular behavior of the adolescent Pinocchio, stimulates

  • Pinocchio

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    Introduction: Pinocchio is one of the most celebrated works in Italian literature. It was written by Carlo Lorenzi in 1883. Like many other writers in Italy at that time he wrote it under a pseudonym Carlo Collodi. Collodi himself was a firm believer in education and one of his main goals was to educate young people, at one point declaring. “Open a school, and you will close a prison”(Collodi in Person, p 141). His novel about Pinocchio continually portrays the virtues of education and the evils

  • The Adventures of Pinocchio

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    overall big pictures sometimes get “lost in translation.” This certainly is the case for Carlo Collodi’s story The Adventures of Pinocchio. Many things occur in the book that do not take place in the Disney movie Pinocchio, originally produced in 1940, and rereleased in 1992. A possible reason for some of the changes could regard audiences. The Adventures of Pinocchio was written in Italian in 1883. Perhaps that is why the book focuses more on morality and is a teach-you-a-lesson about the consequences

  • Characterization in The Little Prince and Pinocchio

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    Characterization in The Little Prince and Pinocchio Children’s stories are often written about growing up or appreciating the joy of being a kid. These stories consist of characters that children can easily relate to and offer the road to exciting adventures. The main character has a personality very similar to the young readers. They have childlike qualities that are enchanting, lovable, curious and especially adventurous. The protagonist encounters individuals on his adventures, which have

  • Pinocchio Italian-American Immigrants

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    Hartman Period 6 Honsa The film "Pinocchio", released in 1940, revolves around the hardships of Italian- American immigrants. Disney’s account of Pinocchio’s story portrays charisma, attitudes, and cultural views of immigrants as they attempt to adapt within American culture. Numerous details have been displayed in the film and demonstrate the how the shift in culture may have been experienced. Geppetto, the creator of Pinocchio, is not wealthy. Geppetto harbors in his abilities

  • Analysis of Pinocchio and Toy Story

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    Analysis of Pinocchio and Toy Story Recently I have been watching two Disney films on completely different sides of the Disney timeline. “Pinocchio” was made in 1940 using cell animation with the story taken from an existing folk tale. “Toy Story” was made in 1995 and it was the first computer generated feature film. This created a whole new genre of computer-animated films such as “Finding Nemo” and the recent “Incredibles”. Both of these films use a toy as the main character and as always

  • Economy, Morality, Gender, and Ethnic Stereotyping

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    Stereotyping Critical Essay on Pinocchio Disney's Pinocchio has been a long time favorite of American culture. However, time has changed and so has our culture. We are no longer described or categorized by being white, European, primarily heterosexual, Protestant, and bourgeois. I have to argue that that stereotype is still in effect. As times have changed so have our people and their values. Now, we are described as "The Melting Pot" of religions, race, sex, and class. Pinocchio was fitting for the culture

  • Characteristics of Antagonists in Disney Movies

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    De Vil of 101 Dalmatians and Stromboli from Pinocchio. In 101 Dalmatians Disney makes no attempt to shield us from the evil nature of the antagonist Cruella De Vil (Cruella) as her name is comprised of ‘cruel’ and ‘devil’. In the movie, Cruella plays a high-brow fashionista so obsessed with making a fur coat out of the skin of young Dalmatians that she is willing to steal 99 puppies from their rightful owners and kill them to make her coat. In Pinocchio, Stromboli plays a puppet showman who burns

  • Disney

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    be two, the foreground and the background. This made zooming in and out easier. In the 1940's there were four classical Disney feature animated movies to come out: Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia, and, Bambi. Little did Walt Disney know that the five movies that he made would be the base for many more Disney movies. In the movie Pinocchio for example, a toy maker creates a puppet and when he makes a wish upon a star.....the puppet turns into a real boy. Dumbo was the next movie to come about from Disney

  • Electric Pinocchio

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    Understanding Hegel: Through the Eyes of an Electric Pinocchio To Hegel, the history of the developing self-conscious mind was the same as the history of philosophy. Through out time, conflicting theories have laid claim to their one exclusive form of truth. Hegel implies that we should not focus on these conflicted ideals but view each as “elements of an organic unity”. This places Hegel as part of a progression of philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, and Kant) who can generally by described as Idealists

  • Jiminy Cricket: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

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    The blue fairy also has Jiminy Cricket help serve as Pinocchio’s conscious, giving him somewhat of a guide to keep him on the right path. As the two head out to explore the world, Jiminy Crickets role becomes apparently vital. Another great message delivered to children, that throughout their life they are going to face tough choices, and it is always better to have guidance to steer you in the right direction. Jiminy Cricket a very important piece to this movies success, as well as Pinocchio’s success

  • Lincoln: The New Pinocchio

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    Once a great leader of the United States, transcending past those before and after his time in office, the sixteenth in line of some of the world’s finest, Abraham Lincoln is a man whom people look up to and aspire to become. His face is printed on every penny and five dollar bill that circulates throughout this nation and the world. Honest Abe, as he is known by some for his great deeds of chivalry while managing a country store. Once he noticed he had taken too much change from a woman earlier

  • Analysis Of The Movie Pinocchio

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    American Canon. This movie officially premiered on October 23, 1941 produced by Walt Disney Productions, released by RKO Radio Pictures, and recorded using the RCA system. During this era, the Disney studio started to experience financial trouble as Pinocchio and Fantasia did not succeed to Walt’s expectations in the box office. Walt Disney and his crew wanted to make sure that Dumbo would be the most emotional piece of work to date in order to help to studio into success. At 64 minutes, Dumbo is one

  • Who Is The Son In Chris Crutcher's The Pin

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    The Pin by Chris Crutcher tells the story of a boy and his father who go against each other in a wrestling match. The father, a strict, disciplinary guardian who was number two wrestler at his university, fears that he will always be number two. The son, a rebellious teenager who feels like he is never good enough, hopes that his father will finally accept him for who he is. The son, Johnny, ends up winning the match, but the father is not happy with him. The father slaps Johnny, in front of three

  • Pinocchio-The Boy Seemed to do Everything Wrong

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    The story of Pinocchio is very interesting. It shows what could happen to everyone if they do not obey. The story can be very much likened to the Christian's walk. Pinocchio had many experiences, both good and bad. He is an example to all of what their actions do to them. Pinocchio had a very interesting life, first as a marionette, then as a donkey, and last but not least, a boy. Pinocchio was a marionette made out of wood. He was naughty from the beginning, just as people are sinful from

  • A Rhetorical Analysis Of Abraham Lincoln's Pinocchio Campaign

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    also known as honest Abe as Pinocchio. With a black and white background and bolded text at the bottom stating “You’re Not You When you’re Hungry; Snickers Satisfies”, the president can be seen with an elongated nose. The elongated nose is a reference to the cartoon character Pinocchio. Pinocchio is famous for his nose growing when he lies, it seems this magazine advertisement is implying that hunger changes your character severely. Hunger changed “Honest Abe” to Pinocchio .When producing advertisements

  • The American Dream In The Disney Film Pinocchio

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    Nothing encapsulates the American Dream better then what a cricket in a top hat said in the Disney film Pinocchio, “When you wish upon a star Makes no difference who you are Anything your heart desires Will come to you” The American Dream is a prodigious ideal of a society where individuals can achieve a better, richer, fuller life than what they begin with if they are able to put the necessary effort towards achieving it. It is a dream where foundations were built on codes of liberty, equality

  • Narrative Text Essay

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    Narrative Text A.2.1 The Definition of Narrative Text A narrative is kind of text having social function to amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways. Narrative text is a text which contain about story (fiction, non fiction, tales, folktales,fables, myths) and its plot consits of the story (complication) then followed by the resolution. Knapp (2005 : 220) say that, “Narrative text is one of the most commonly read, though least understood of all the genres

  • Native Americans Use Of Oral Traditions In The Film Ice Age

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    Native American literature began before pen and paper, and before the Europeans came to North America. The Native Americans had already developed a rich history of their own using oral tradition to pass on their stories and myths. This was because the many tribes were so diverse, and at the time, they lacked an actual written language. The oral tradition was not only the telling of a story, but a performance to retell the story of many different themes and ideas. These ideas include a tribe's cultural

  • Techno-color Dreams: The Walt Disney Empire

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    Introduction The Walt Disney Company was a leader in animation because he had Techno-color and new ideas for the time being of entertainment. Techno-color is the color they used in the fifties. People would wait in line to watch the next film even if they saw it twice. Disney's company makes all their money from theme parks, movies, tv shows and animations. With all the advertisement Disney has brought in a lot of money. Disney had and always will have an impression on kids. To there shows and