Shel Silverstien's The Missing Piece Meets The Big O
Shel Silverstien’s short story, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, is a tale about a lost piece trying to find where it belongs; with encountering familiar symbolic relationships, while living in the world of an allegory for the struggles of growing up, and fitting in, and a life altering epiphany. “The missing piece sat alone… waiting for someone to come along and take it somewhere.”
In the first, few pages the piece sits alone, waiting for someone to come and pick it up. Some come to rescue it, but end up as failed relationships. All those who try to fit with the piece, are almost archetypical, and symbolic for relationships the common person experiences in their quest for becoming themselves. The piece encounters those who could fit,
In the first, few pages the piece sits alone, waiting for someone to come and pick it up. Some come to rescue it, but end up as failed relationships. All those who try to fit with the piece, are almost archetypical, and symbolic for relationships the common person experiences in their quest for becoming themselves. The piece encounters those who could fit,