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.
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