Summary
One day a boy finds a strange creature at the beach and becomes friends. Since the thing seemed to be lost, the boy tries to find his home. He brings it to a building he saw on the TV but actually it was a place for making things lost and forgotten for ever. Finally he finds the right place for it and they say bye.
Setting
Near future, city near a beach (probably Australia)
Conflict
Boy vs himself / the lost thing vs society
Symbols
the lost thing→ People who seem not to fit in the society
playing with a ball → Connection, friendship
the bell→ the thing's voice, emotion
collecting bottle caps→ freedom of doing what you like, even if other people don't understand it.
Irony
He didn't do anything to another lost thing he saw at the last scene.
Even he became too busy to notice the lost things in the society.
Climax
When the door of the Utopian land opened.
Theme
There are things and people who cannot easily fit in the society. However, there is somewhere right for everyone so we have to pay attention and help the lost things instead of ignoring or not noticing them.
