Maslow's Hierarchy & The Night Trilogy

According to the hierarchical nature by Abraham Maslow, from the more fundamental to less, people seek their  needs in physiological, safety, belonging, esteem and self-actualization. He also stated that a person will tend to abandon the higher needs in order to pay attention to sufficiently meeting the lower needs.
In The Night Trilogy, Nazis started holocaust toward Jews by taking away the needs of them in the top part of the Hierarchy model - Self-actualization and esteem. They began marking Jews with unique yellow starts on their apparel to distinguish them from other people. Then they moved down toward belonging and safety where they took away valuable stuffs from Jews and moved them into Ghetto, away from their home. Jews were also separated with their families by lots of segmentation processes. Later on, Nazis abused physiological needs of Jews as well. They were tortured with cruel discrimination, punishments and experiments. Later when their physiological needs were threatened, their esteem or anything else was long gone. Jews were busy taking care of themselves, holding on to own life, and the survival from all cruel treatments they faced in the death camp.

In the real life and in the normal life, people are focused on keeping their esteems. But as the condition worsen, their instinct move focus down to their belongings, safety, and oneself. Once people reach the lowest poverty they could ever reach, they are no long aware of what others would view them. They hold on to whatever jobs they can in order to survive. Once you lose everything you have, there would be nothing more important than safety itself. People would seek for any place that they could safely spend over the night. At the very end, humans are driven so desperate and/or insane when their health, food, sleep, or whatever that are necessary for survival becomes vulnerable.

Allegory: The Sneetches

The Allegory contains the story with two levels of meaning. One could be easily shown through the story directly. Underneath it, there is another hidden meaning that the elements in the stories actually represent. In the story "The Sneetches" the main characters are the Sneetches with the star on the belly, with no star on the belly and the Monkey Beam guy.
As the story start, the Sneetches with the star on their bellies feel superior over those without the star. They excluded those who do not have the star on their bellies from them. And the Sneetches with no star on their bellies try to fit in their societies but they failed everytime. This represent the real world where certain groups of people bully others by their appearance or who they are, solely because they are not alike.
When the author brings out the Monkey guy, who take advantages of the Sneetches stupidity over their acceptance of each others' uniqueness, he reflects the people who see people bullying someone and taking advantage of the fact. Monkey guy introduces the way where starless Sneetches can get star on their bellies. Then the original Sneetches with star get mad at the fact that starless ones become same as them. Again the Monkey guy introduce them the way to erase the stars so they don't look like newly-starred Sneetches and made tons of money off them. Those two groups of Sneetches keep on doing this work back and forth to be differ or same to the other one.
Later, two groups of Sneetches no longer were able to distinguish who was originally who and realized how stupid they were. Then the monkey guy left, satisfied at the fact that he made tons of money off those Sneetches and laughed at their stupidity. Surprisingly, both kinds of Sneetches finally recognized that they were so wrong and stupid, and learned to accept each other's difference.
At the end, the author sends the social, moral lessons that difference can not make another either superior or inferior. Instead of directly label the people in the real world, the story could be fun and contains two different meanings. It seemed to be about Sneetches' learning lesson, but it actually had deeper meaning that apply to the human world.

Allegory: Terrible Things

Allegory is the literature work with two levels of meaning, a literal one and a symbolic one. In the book "Terrible Things" written by Eve Bunting, the author created different animals in the forest to symbolize the different kinds of people that were slaughtered by Nazis Hitler. Instead of directly place real people in the story, Bunting could send the message through forest animals who played the role as human species.
When the white rabbits saw the shadows and evil eyes of the terrible things that are taking away other animals species by species, they just felt careless and relieved that they weren't the one who were being taken away. This is substituting the scene where certain groups of people carelessly let other groups like Gypse, Jews, disabled, homosexuals and Catholics being taken away by Nazis to be tortured. They would felt relieved that they weren't same people as those people and they were all focusing on prejudices of those animals.
But later on, the terrible things once more came back get the white rabbits as well. The white rabbits were freaking out and screaming out for help from others. But it was too late; no one was hardly left to help them. Few of them could survive at the end. They questioned themselves that what if they have cared and helped others when they were being taken by Nazis who also are just one of many groups of people. They wondered if they could have stopped the tragedy of losing those people to the terrible things if they have stuck together with one another and fight against them.
These few left animals among white rabbits also represent the people back then, those of few who survived. The author is precisely criticizing the people who survived and or excluded from Nazis' lists of genocides. They turned away from people who were holocausted by Nazis when they could have actually all stuck together and protect each other from Nazis just because they were safe, that they were not the one who were being slaughted. Then when they realized the Nazis were coming after them, they wanted and expected someone to come rescue them. But there were no other people left to rescue them because they were all taken when they turned their back at them.
The story itself primarily shows how careless and prejudice animals and white rabbits are, but to go deeper inside, the whole plot represented the real human society with the genocide based on prejudice. In this Allegory, Bunting used the animals to show the different kinds of people, misjudged by stereotypes, and turned away by others who refused to step forward and help them fight against discrimination and the holocaust.