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Pinkfish as Mr. Darling's pets: recurring motif across books

x_p5_387 recurring_element

Mr. 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).

books Book 1 Book 3 Book 4 Book 6 Book 7
subjects Pinkfish - Mr. Darling - r_b01_039 - r_b03_051 - r_b04_074 - r_b06_034 - r_b07_064

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
citations b01:c04:p093 b03:c08:p188 b04:c09:p170 b06:c02:p057 b07:c10:p225