The Lost Thing

 Summary:

    The Lost Thing is a story about a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature while collecting bottle-tops at a beach. He tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, but is met with indifference by everyone else. Despite his better judgement, the boy feels sorry for the creature and attempts to find out where it belongs.

What is lost? What does it symbolize? :

    In my opinion the thing that is lost in the animation is the imagination and the childlike innocence we had in our childhood. The reason for this is the appearance of the “lost thing”. It was red, huge and looked like a crab. Though, the other “lost things” looked different from the red one. Some flew in the air, one was shaped like an instrument, and one had pencil and was drawing on the ground. Additionally, the main character was saying “ I see that kind of thing less and less these days. Maybe there aren’t many lost things around anymore. Or maybe…maybe I’ve just stop noticing. Too busy doing other stuff, I guess.” These words I think is representing how when people become an adult, we tend to fit in to others and forgets about the dreams and the imaginations we had as a child.