Mermaid

Setting: The story goes on a certain country that people are banned to imagine some fantasical things.

Point of view: This story is told from omnicent point of view.

Conflict: A boy and Society could be a conflict in this story. The government of this country bans citizens to think about magical or fantagical things so that this boy forced by government to say that that was a fish, not a mermaid. However, he didn't give up on his credit even they tried to force him to say that was a fish.

Symbol: This country's system must be a symbol of restrictions on freedom of thoughts. The government on this country symbolizes that our controlled society might be gone in wrong direction.

Irony: The ironical part of this film is that he's never changed his insistence through the government's examination on him, however, when he came back to his house and saw his water tank he couldn't see a mermaid in it, just a fish.

Climax: He is stolen his imagination by the government, eventually, he desappeared away into the ocean with a mermaid that he found.

Theme: No one has a right to take the power to fantasize something out from children is the theme of this story. Tezuka Osamu might want to tell us how strange our society is. Japanese often think that being same as other people is a good thing though, it means that we are killing our individuality at the same time.