page_title: Talking Cricket
section_title: Role
hierarchical_section_title: Talking Cricket / Role
caption_attribution_description: Illustrations from "Le avventure di Pinocchio, storia di un burattino", Carlo Collodi, Bemporad &amp; figlio, Firenze 1902 (Drawings and engravings by Carlo Chiostri, and A. Bongini)
context_page_description: The Talking Cricket is a fictional character that appears in Carlo Collodi's 1883 book The Adventures of Pinocchio.
context_section_description: The Talking Cricket, which has lived in Geppetto's house for over a century, makes his first appearance in chapter IV, after Pinocchio's mischief has landed his creator Geppetto in prison, and insists that Pinocchio must either attend school or work, to function properly in the world. When Pinocchio refuses to listen, the Cricket states, "You are a puppet and what's worse is that you have a head of wood", whereupon Pinocchio throws a mallet at the cricket, killing him.
  In chapter XIII, the Talking Cricket appears as a ghost to Pinocchio, telling him to return home rather than keep an appointment with the Fox and the Cat (Il Gatto e la Volpe). Pinocchio refuses and in chapter XIV, he is subsequently injured. The Talking Cricket reappears in chapter XVI, where his colleagues, the Crow and the Owl, and he tend to Pinocchio's injuries
  The Talking Cricket makes his final appearance in chapter XXXVI, living in a house given to him by the Fairy with Turquoise Hair, where he allows Pinocchio and the ailing Geppetto to stay while Geppetto recovers his health.
caption: "You are a puppet and what's worse is that you have a head of wood".
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