Symbolism In Yertle The Turtle's Life

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There are many different symbols of in this analogy. This about Yertle the Turtle’s life, but it is comparing it to something else. All proving that this is referring to Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. The first piece of evidence was when he didn’t feel happy about the small throne, he had and wanted to expand. So he made the nine turtles step on each others back for satisfaction. This is like Adolf Hitler, he didn’t feel satisfied after he made the Jews identify themselves with the yellow star. So he decided he would send them away to create this perfect society. He was just waiting for that perfect time to put his plan in motion and unfortunately it did. The second piece of symbolism is when he made all the turtle’s and their

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