ipl-logo

Allegory In The Holocaust By Eve Bunting

221 Words1 Pages
Eve Bunting created an allegory that expressed the holocaust through an extended metaphor and indirect/direct characterization in the Terrible Things. The extended metaphor that is conveyed through Terrible Things is relating the forest and all of its animals to the victims of the holocaust/those that did not help. Every single animal is taken by the Terrible things except for little rabbit. The Terrible things can be inferred to be humans through indirect characterization of them having nets and blotting out the sun. This is similar to how they trapped and took Jews in the holocaust. All of the animals were judged by something seemingly insignificant difference just like the Jews in the holocaust. Little rabbit wished that they had all stood
Open Document