An allegory is
a rhetorical device in which characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts. The book Terrible Things was an allegory for the holocaust in many ways. All the animals represented different races and classes of people and their ignorance to what the Nazi regime was doing to all the non master race Germans. The last little rabbit represented the few Jews left after the holocaust. In the book, the little white rabbit went on to tell his story and to try and tell people what had happene