Allegory

What is an Allegory?

It's a literary term an allegory is actually the use of characters, events or ideas in a novel or literary text that are used to illustrate or show a larger concept something that's not directly said but it's implied rather now this larger concept that I just mentioned can relate to a number of different things for instance. These larger concepts can pertain to something political or it could be something religious, it could be historical or social. Either way whatever the larger concept is directly pertaining to the whole point of the allegory is that the author is using the text to provide his or her own commentary on the subject matter in other words. The author is investing and putting their own opinion into the literary text. Now in order to identify this you have to realize that the allegory is almost like a hidden message. It's the author's own hidden message that they want to get across in the novel. 

And as you read the book or whatever you're reading you'll eventually start to recognize subtle hints that will lead toward allegory or the true message that the author is trying to get across.  So once you reach the end you should have a better understanding of the allegory.