5/5/2023 0 Comments Rainbow fish![]() This is horrifying.Īnd this is only if you take the story literally! Pfister’s narrator instills the moral of the story with, “And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became.” So, maybe it wouldn’t be a bloodbath-note: do not Google “fish blood” or “rip scales off fish” during lunch-but still. You know that surprised Pikachu meme? That’s my face right now. ![]() And Rainbow Fish is just taking it as he “share his scales left and right.” Wow. (Seriously, what is wrong with these fish?) It’s a total frenzy. Soon enough, all the other fish are gathered around and clamoring for their own cut of the Rainbow Fish’s scales. (I suppose to Rainbow Fish’s credit, here, he only provides the “smallest scale”-I’m looking for ways to be lenient here because it’s a children’s book, but Pfister makes it awfully difficult.) The blue fish then “tuck the shiny scale in among his blue ones.” Great, so now we have a Franken-fish situation. I just want one little scale.”Įxcept by now, the Rainbow Fish has been swayed by the creepy octopus and agrees to-let me just say this again- dismember himself for the gratification of this annoying fish who won’t take no for an answer. Despite the Rainbow Fish’s earlier refusal, blue fish just doesn’t get it and asks again with language that sounds like classic manipulative language to me: “Rainbow Fish, please don’t be angry. The Rainbow Fish leaves the octopus behind and, on his return to the colony, happens upon the blue fish who asked for scales in the first place. Why is everyone so obsessed with the bodily removal of the Rainbow Fish’s scales? What is this, some kind of ocean take on Saw ? You will no longer be the most beautiful fish in the sea, but you will discover how to be happy.” After creepily coming from the shadows in a cave, the octopus advises the Rainbow Fish to “Give a glittering scale to each of the other fish. This creature, an octopus, is recommended to the Rainbow Fish by a starfish, but it still a stranger to the Rainbow Fish. It seems the Rainbow Fish does care, however, because with no one willing to interact with him, there is also no one who is there to admire his “dazzling, shimmering scales.” Frankly, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for Rainbow Fish, but his co-fish are pretty awful, too.Īfter Rainbow Fish decides that he needs this validation from the other fish, he goes in search of a wise ocean creature to guide him. Of course, Rainbow Fish apparently thought he was too good for the rest of the fish, anyway, so maybe this isn’t a problem for him, but still-“From then on, no one would have anything to do with the Rainbow Fish ” is harsh. ![]() And what’s worse? When the Rainbow Fish, understandably, I think, says no, everyone ostracizes him. Now, before we start screaming about socialism, I want to point out that the other fish are literally asking Rainbow Fish to dismember (okay, so he doesn’t have limbs, but that’s essentially what’s happening here) himself for their own aesthetic purposes. They are so wonderful and you have so many.” “Please give me one of your shiny scales.
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