The story literally talks about things coming to take the animals in the wild away. But they do it selectively, one animal then another and then another. This would be the literal meaning of the Allegory. The symbolic meaning would apply more to the holocaust or a related conflict. The terrible things, in the case of the holocaust, would be the German nationalists coming to get the animals which are a resemblance of the peoples that the Nazis' wanted to destroy or all together terminate. The little rabbit who survived the terrible things and goes on to sell the tale would be the survivors and those who tried and succeeded in hiding or evading the nationalists who were coming for all that they deemed "inferior". The definition of an Allegory is a story that has two meanings, one symbolic and one literal, this story has both and would greatly be called an Allegory.
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