Summary
The main character Shawn is collecting bottle caps at a beach when he finds a object referred as "The lost thing" and looks for its place to go home. When he is rejected at home, he goes to a factory for the lost thing to go where he encounters a man and tells him where the lost thing belongs. The boy takes the lost thing to the suggested place where there where many others like him.
Setting
Near future, Australia
Conflict
the boy vs society
Climax
When the boy sees the world of lots of lost things
Symbol
Lost thing: Ambition, creativity
Bells: our inner ambition crying to get noticed
Humans: people who threw away the lost thing
Dark world: a dull society with no dreams, fulled with people who can't shine as individuals
Irony
When the boy met the strange creature in the factory and told him the right place for the lost thing to go.
Theme
We always have ambition and dreams in our selfs but society makes us so busy that we forget about it, but thats what makes us individuals, and when we forget our ambition and dreams, our life becomes dull and we can no longer shine as individuals.
