1. setting: story happens in summer in a costal village of Greek
2. point of view: omniscient
3. conflict: two octopi who are lover vs. the driver and seagull
4. climax: the driver tries to prevent the male octopus from saving his woman, and the truck which is out of control rushes down the village.
5. symbol:
1) the logo on the truck in which there are two knives under an octopus stands for the death.
2) the driver and the seagull stand for the obstacle on the way of love.
6. irony
1) in the first scene, the two octopi enjoyed the embrace with each other in the aquarium, suddenly a hand reaches from above, get them separated and takes away the female octopus from the male one.
2) in the last scene, the two octopi finally get rid of the driver and take a rest on the clothes line, another peril happens that the male octopus is captured by a seagull.
7) theme: the way of love is full of obstacle and perils and is not smooth.
