Pinkfish as Mr. Darling's pets: recurring motif across books
x_p5_387 recurring_elementMr. Darling's ownership of pinkfish and his habit of taking them out (walking, boating, building structures for them) recurs as an in-world motif across at least five story books (b01, b03, b04, b06, b07).
Evidence
| r_b01_039 (b01): Mr. Darling walks his pinkfish around the school yard | Mr. Darling is obsessed with his pinkfish, and every day during recess, he takes them for a walk around the school yard | b01:c04:p093 |
| r_b03_051 (b03): Mr. Darling left his pinkfish behind in his classroom | Mr. Darling (he left his pinkfish behind in his classroom) | b03:c08:p188 |
| r_b04_074 (b04): Mr. Darling's pet pinkfish used to calm Ms. Grimstead | Greta had calmed Ms. Grimstead down by jamming Mr. Darling's pet pinkfish onto her head. | b04:c09:p170 |
| r_b06_034 (b06): Mr. Darling rents a boat to take his pinkfish for a row | He'd just rented a boat and was taking his pinkfish out for a little row. | b06:c02:p057 |
| r_b07_064 (b07): Mr. Darling builds a weird structure for his pinkfish | Mr. Darling, a teacher from our school, had built some kind of weird structure for his pinkfish. | b07:c10:p225 |