Setting: sometime in the past, and in a foreign country
Point of View: Omniscient
Conflict: a boy vs himself
Climax: a government tried to change the boy's thought and used various ways
Symbol: a mermaid symbolizes freedom of thought
Irony: a boy was always thinking about the mermaid, but at the end of the story he himself became a mermaid
Theme: every people has the right and freedom of thoughts, so no one shoul restrict it
