Allegory means that it has two meaning or a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. So in Dr. Seuss there were sneetches that have stars on them and there were sneetches that don’t. The whole episode showed racism because of the fact that the sneetches with stars didn’t let the ones without stars from joining them in anything they did or they didn’t even let them talk to one another. The sneetches with stars segregated them off the beach made fun of them, and even kicked them out of the campfire. So a guy drove a truck that had a machine that put stars on the ones that didn’t so the sneetches without stars paid 3 dollars each to get a star put on them. Once they got those stars the other sneetches didn’t like that because now they would be considered equal. So the ones that had the stars to begin with went to the guy that put them on the others and had theirs removed for ten dollars, so that way they would be different again. So when the sneetches that got them removed the other ones also got theirs removed for ten dollars. So then they all couldn’t tell each other apart. So then they all went around in a figure eight getting the stars on and off and over and over until they all ran out of money. So the guy packed up the truck and left. When he left he laughed because they were now stuck with whatever stars or not they had. In the end all the sneetches accepted one another because they realized that it was silly to judge one another based on if they had stars or not because they found out that they were not different from one another like they thought in the beginning. So that is how it ties into allegory because it had two sides of the story one that thought they were better than others and the ones that wanted to be like the ones with stars.
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