Character- A boy who falls in love with a mermaid(actually she is just a fish,she's in his imagination)
Setting- According to the date of this film, this is the story during World War II .
What the character want- The boy wants to dream,imagine the mermaid.
On the other hand, the government don't want people to be imagine.
Conflict-The government imprison him for being imagine and forbid to imagine again.
But the boy still want to imagine the mermaid.
In the end, he can't remember what she looks like.
Ending- He come back to his home, but he can see nothing but a small fish.
There is no longer the mermaid,and he goes into the sea with the fish.
What happens next- I think his going into the sea is in his dream,so later he will wake up and realize there isn't mermaid and get depressed.
And this tells us how important and precious the imagination is.
Theme- We can't live without imagination ability.That makes our life much more vivid.