Setting A country near the sea. The film would be around 1964, which is the year the film was made.
Conflict The county the boy lives in bans peoples imagination。However, the boy imagines about mermaids after helping a fish
Climax The boy gets caught and gets forced to stop imagining about mermaids
Symbol I think that the symbol of this animation is fins. The boy forgot the upper half of the mermaid but, he remembered the fins of the mermaid.
Irony A mermaid can swim around in the sea and has freedom but, the boy doesn’t have any
Theme Imagination