Setting: Japan in WWⅡ, when freedom of thinking was suppressed.
Conflict: the boy vs himself the boy and the government the boy vs his parents
Climax: at the last of the story, the boy advanced toward the sea with the fish and I think
the fish turned into a mermaid and moreover, the boy turned into a mermaid as well.
Symbol: the sea is the symbol of the boy's freedom
the mermaid is a existence relieveing his mind stress because people in the country were not
allowed to imagine.
Irony: the government tried him to forget the mermaid by using many physical ways, but he
remember. However, when a psychological way was acted, the image of the mermaid was
faded.
Theme: even your ideas or thoughts are denied by people around you, you should be strong to your ideas or thoughts
