"The Terrible Things" is a story that symbolizes an allegory. An allegory is a work with two levels of meaning, a literal one and a symbolic one. In such a work, most of the characters, objects, settings, and events represent abstract qualities. Personification is often used in traditional allegories. As in a fable or parable, the purpose of an allegory may be to convey truths about life, to teach religious or moral lessons, or to criticize social institutions. "The Terrible Things" is allegorical because it represents the Holocaust. The terrible things are supposed to be the Nazis and the forest animals are supposed to be the Jewish people. The terrible things would invade the forest animals' land and take them all away; just like how the Nazis invaded the Jewish peoples' land and took them all away as well. The Terrible things seemed to be stronger than the forest animals so that was why it was so easy to take them away; the Nazis must have been stronger than the Jewish people as well so that must have been why they were easy to take away. In the end of "The Terrible Things", there was one forest animal that did not get taken away by the terrible things; just like in the real world, there must have been Jews that were able to hide and not be taken away by the Nazis. Over all, "The Terrible Things" represented and symbolized the Holocaust.
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June 2016
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