Mr. Darling's pinkfish: recurring motif across books 1, 3, 4, 6, 7
x_p5_386 recurring_elementMr. Darling's ownership of pinkfish and his eccentric behaviour involving them (walking them, rowing them, building for them) recurs as an in-world motif across books b01, b03, b04, b06, and b07.
Evidence
| b01: Mr. Darling walks his pinkfish around the school yard and reads them a story every recess | Mr. Darling is obsessed with his pinkfish, and every day during recess, he takes them for a walk around the school yard... ...and then usually reads them a story. | b01:c04:p093 |
| b03: Mr. Darling left his pinkfish behind in his classroom | Mr. Darling (he left his pinkfish behind in his classroom) | b03:c08:p188 |
| 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 |
| b06: Mr. Darling takes his pinkfish out for a row on a rented boat | He'd just rented a boat and was taking his pinkfish out for a little row. | b06:c02:p057 |
| b07: Mr. Darling builds a structure for his pinkfish at the sandcastle competition | Mr. Darling, a teacher from our school, had built some kind of weird structure for his pinkfish. | b07:c10:p225 |