Summary
One day, there was a boy who had a fertile imagination. He could see things that other people could,'t see, but it was not allowed that time. People tried to make him stop to be different from others by torturing him, and that destroyed the boy. He was sad because he couldn't remember the mermaid of his imagination.
Evaluation
I think in that time, in that country, people were not allowed to be different. Maybe the government were afraid of people who had a different idea, and deny to obey the country's rules. I'd like to take the Edo period in Japan as an example. People were not allowed to have a different religion that time, let alone your own opinion about it.
I can see the government despair in the way they tried to fix the child who believed in his mermaid. In my opinion, the mermaid means freedom, and the government did every thing to take it from the boy. Even though, the boy could remember in the end. He fought for his rights of freedom. As we could see the mermaid in the end, I think it means that freedom is something no one can take from us.
