The main character of this story is a boy
who likes imagination and making up fictional things. His parents also show up
during the story but mainly it keeps on with the boy and fish he turned into
mermaid in his imagination.
The boy lives in a country where
imagination is banned and regarded as wrong. He, at first, enjoyed himself with
a mermaid he created but later gets caught by the police for making things up. They
torture him to make him unable to imagine thigs up anymore and consequently he
loses his imaginary world. However at the end of the story, as he is on the run
from the police he sees the mermaid once again in the fish and he changed himself
into fish as well so that they can swim away into the ocean together.
What I
believe this story is intended to tell us is that killing the free mind equals
to killing the person himself. We cannot rob absolutely anyone of their freedom
of thinking and feeling like our society often does today.
