1, Setting
Takes place in a town near a beach where imagination is a crime.
A boy goes fishing one day and caught a fish but the boy sees it as a mermaid.
2, Conflict
The town where the boy lives doesn't allow people to imagine. So when the boy told his parents that he caught a mermaid and showed "The Mermaid" to them, they thought he was delusions and crazy so called the police to straighten him up.
3, Climax
After the boy was tortured he went back home and saw, not a mermaid, but a little fish in a big tank. He went back to the sea to free the fish but the fish turned into a mermaid again and this time the towns people saw the same thing as the boy. The the boy turned into a merman and swam away with the mermaid.
4, Symbol
Mermaid: a symbol of free-thinking and of individuality. Even if we are shown the same thing, we each see it in a different way from one another. Sometimes we only see what we want to see.
5, Irony
Even after all of what the government did to him he could still believe in the mermaid, and this time he was not the only one who saw it.
6, Theme
The fear of management society and the escape from it.
