Hello! This is Nami.
I'm going to write about Mermaid by Osamu Teduka.
The characters in the story was a boy, a mermaid - sometimes she looked like a fish, and people surrounding the boy including his parents.
At first, he wanted his parents to know the existence of the mermaid.
However, all they could see in a water tank was just a fish. So they regarded him as being in an imagination though any imagination was banned in the society.
That was the conflict in the story.
The climax was when he was brainwashed, and consequently was made to be unable to remember how the mermaid was like.
After that, he could not even see the mermaid when he met her again thorough the water tank in his house. He just saw a fish in it.
At the end, as he felt too sad to live without the mermaid, he made up his mind to go back to the sea with her, which means he committed suicide.
After the end of the story, I guess he turned to be a merman. People might interpret his suicide as the consequence of his imagination. Thus, the forbiddance of imagination would be harder than before his death.
The theme of the story was “don't lose your imagination” or “no one can stop imagination of others.”
