The true story of Pinocchio and his despicable father Gepetto

The true story of Pinocchio It seems more like a horror story than a children’s story. While Disney’s 1940 adaptation is also filled with abuse of a helpless child, there is a fan-created version that is even more terrifying.

In the history of disney, Pinocchio is a boy with a kind heart who learns that telling lies can get him into serious trouble. He also has a kind father, who loves him and cares about him, a cute cricket who gives him the best advice, and a fairy godmother, who, despite everything, is always there to take care of him.

However, the true story of Pinocchio, created by the Italian writer Carlo Collodi in 1883, Pinocchio is more of an inconsiderate lazy man. which causes her innocent father Gepetto to be imprisoned after accusing him of abuse.

Carlo Collodi hated children and that is why his character Pinocchio reflected everything that he disliked about children. Pinocchio had a difficult personality, he was a disrespectful, capricious, abusive and disobedient boy.

Pinocchio, the story by Carlo Collodi

That is why from the beginning of the story, Collodi makes it very clear to us what a bad son Pinocchio will be in the rest of the story and that is that as soon as Geppetto He gives the piece of wood a body, the puppet steals its wig and kicks its creator.

Enraged Geppetto He takes him by the neck and locks him up. Pinocchio He manages to escape and accuses him of mistreatment. Pinocchio returns home and kills a talking cricket for upsetting him by warning him of the dangers his behavior can bring him.

Pinocchio felt happy with so much freedom, but he realized the evil that exists in the world and regretted having been so bad to his father. The small Pinocchio He slept many nights on the street, went hungry, received abuse and even a bucket of ice water.

Desperate Pinocchio He returns home and tries to warm his feet in the fireplace but gets burned and suffers great damage. Fortunately the next morning Geppetto He manages to prove his innocence and when he gets home he sees his son with his feet destroyed. Geppetto He heals his wounds and makes the puppet a pair of new legs.

He also feeds him and sells some of his belongings so that his son can go to school. but so soon Pinocchio He sets foot on the street, gets into trouble, sells the books that his father bought for him with effort, and wanders around with a fox and a cat, who take advantage of the puppet’s ignorance and whom he believes are his friends.

The rest of the story is true, Pinocchio meet Moth and he takes him to a place of vices, gambling, tobacco and liquor. Pinocchio He hits the bottom and when he sees how many little ones ended up turning into donkeys, he tries to flee.

But Pinocchio He ends up being imprisoned for 4 months and when he leaves, hungry, he prepares to eat the crop of a farmer who punishes him by turning him into a scarecrow. Days after Pinocchio He gains his freedom by catching a couple of weasels.

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Pinocchio, the good-hearted boy

Pinocchio He saves his father from the stomach of a whale, works in the field to help his father and that is where he meets P again.potcompletely converted into a donkey. Pinocchio He treats him well and feeds him every day. At this stage Pinocchio He has changed a lot, he no longer tells lies, he takes care of his father, he works on the farm and also studies at home.

During the morning of one day Pinocchio wake up like a real child and Geppetto He enjoys enviable health. In this version Pinocchio It has a new body, so in the room you can still see the lifeless wooden puppet. Pinocchio He hugs his father and asks for forgiveness for his bad behavior.

However, Pinocchio fans made a new version and uploaded it on Reddit and in this version, Pinocchio is not evil, but Gepetto.

The Reddit story where Gepetto is a despicable being.

Versions and adaptations of Pinocchio There are many but none of them look like the one circulating in redditwhere several fans decided to make their own version of this story.

In this history Geppetto He is a bitter man who was abandoned by his wife because he could not have children. Geppetto He then creates a puppet and upon realizing that it has life, he locks it in a cage.

During the night at Geppetto A fairy godmother appears to him and she asks him to free the child. Gepetto tells him no, because children lie and get into trouble. The fairy godmother promises him that he will know when Pinocchio lies because his nose will grow every time he does. Gepetto accepts and the blue fairy leaves calmly.

However the things for Pinocchio not change, Geppetto He barely feeds him and never allows him to leave the cage because he is also afraid of him. Pinocchio asks Gepetto to free him but he flatly refuses. But after Pinocchio insists a few more times, Gepetto gives him a chance.

He places the keys at the end of the cage and tells Pinocchio If you want to free yourself, take the keys with your nose. Pinocchio he doesn’t understand anything. Geppetto He explains that every time he lies, his nose will grow so he can reach the keys to free himself.

Pinocchio then tells his first lie: ‘I love you father’, says the puppet and Pinocchio who only felt contempt for Geppetto and his mistreatment, he sees for himself how his nose begins to grow. ‘Father, when I leave here I’m going to give you a hug’the puppet said again and saw how his nose grew exponentially.

So he continued telling lies Pinocchiountil at one point his neck began to break because his nose was too heavy. Pinocchio He was one more lie away from his freedom and at the same time one more lie away from breaking his neck. Pinocchio He decided to take the risk and finally told his last lie, his nose grew and minutes later his thin neck cracked.

A week later the fairy appeared and asked Geppetto what had happened Geppetto who could lie freely without her nose growing, invented a story that the fairy godmother completely believed and in return, decided to give her a real child. Gepetto, who suffered the same bad luck as Pinocchio and grew up in a home where he was despised for being small.