The Story of Pinocchio

Cerita tentang sebuah boneka patung yang bernama Pinokio berasal dari Italia. Cerita ini mengisahkan tentang boneka kayu yang suka berbohong yang menyebabkan hidungnya bertambah panjang. Sebaliknya jika Pinokio berkata jujur maka hidungnya akan kembali normal. Pada akhir cerita, Pinokio berhasil menjadi seorang anak sungguhan karena ia sangat mengasihi ayah angkatnya yang telah merawat dengan penuh kasih. Hal ini ia buktikan ketika ia berusaha menyelamatkan ayah angkatnya yang terperangkap di dalam perut ikan paus.

Adapun cerita selengkapnya dalam versi bahasa Inggris adalah seperti berikut :

The Real Story of Pinocchio

Once upon a time, Gepetto, an old woodsman, living in the great Italian pine forest, was lonely. He always dreamed about having a son.

Each day, he went cutting woods for the town’s people. One day, an idea illuminated his mind, the idea of crafting a puppet, which he will call it Pinocchio. He crafted that puppet and during the night, the puppet becomes alive!

One year of happiness and thriller passed, on a Sunday morning, Gepetto told Pinocchio:

‘’It’s my birthday soon, my little son! I hope you didn’t forget it!’’

‘’Euh, sure, I didn’t!’’

Pinocchio felt awkward. He didn’t thought about that. Gepetto’s birthday was coming in only three days, and he hadn’t even a present.

After a long night of reflecting, Pinocchio finally decided to offer a homemade chocolate cake to him as a present.

When the sun rose, Pinocchio was already ready to go outside find the ingredients. The main problem was he didn’t even known the in and the recipe.

So after school, he decided to go ask someone for the ingredients to bake a cake. During his walk, Pinocchio, the wooden puppet, met the town’s sorcerer.

‘’Hey, little boy, do you need some help for your chocolate cake?’’

‘’Hum…You can help me?’’, asked Pinocchio.

‘’Sure, I can. Follow me!’’

After walking few minutes so, Pinocchio saw a big, big, big candy house. They entered together and Pinocchio got caught by a big cage.

‘’Mouahahaha!!! I finally caught you! You’ll be mine, you’re goanna work for me!’’, said the evil sorcerer.

Pinocchio was so scared. When the guards came and took him out of the cage, he immediately ran away very fast and he succeeded to escape.

At the same time, the evil sorcerer, calling all his troops with him, ran after him and he took out his magic wand. The evil devil changed the little wooden puppet into a chocolate cake!

When he came back home, he told the entire story to his father and they went to find the god fairy.

After a long trip, they finally find the god fairy and they got the magical potion for Pinocchio.

Akhir cerita ini bisa jadi pelajaran untuk anak-anak kita agar tidak mudah berbohong karena kebohongan mengandung konsekuensi buruk meskipun bukan dalam bentuk hidung kita yang akan panjang seperti dalam cerita Pinokio dalam bahasa inggris ini.