The Sneetches is all about two groups of creatures that is being divided simply by a star on the belly. The star belly sneetches was the ones taking control over the best parts of the beach they lived on and the other ones was destined to live as outcasts. One can draw direct lines from real life racism and class division. The reason why this is an allegory is because it wants to teach the reader the lesson of not to be prejudice and to interact with different people even though they are of different races, appearance or sex. Sylvester McMonkey McBean represents the man or leader that takes advantage of the racism, and he end up taking all the sneetches money to the very last dollar before he packs up his stuff and leaves. He has gotten what he came for and did not care how he got it. This can in many ways be compared to the 19 hundreds robber barons, who earned their riches by taking advantage of other people and their labor.
At the end of the story the sneetches comes together in unity, and the lesson learned in the story was partly because of McBean and his machines and when they understood that when they did not know who was what it didnt make a difference.
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