The Missing Piece Meets the Big O

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And here comes Silverstein’s tenderest, most invigorating magic — when the missing piece becomes its well-rounded self, the Big O emerges, silently and without explanation. In the final scene, the two are seen rolling side by side, calling to mind Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s contribution to history’s greatest definitions of love: “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” Book Genre: Childrens, Classics, Comics, Fiction, Humor, Inspirational, Philosophy, Picture Books, Poetry, Sequential Art, Young Adult How many times have we turned into a ball of wax when we see Tom Cruise confessing to Renee Zelleweger in Jerry Macguire – ‘You Complete me’? Don’t stop trying The missing piece" nos habla acerca de las relaciones (amistades, pero principalmente amorosas) y ante todo trata de independencia y autoestima (no como concepto, sino como actitud) y de cómo estar faltos de ambas cosas puede lastimarnos. De como la desesperación puede hacer que las cosas sean más dificil y de como, muchas veces, podemos vernos como insuficientes. At last, a shape comes by that looks completely different — it has no piece missing at all — and introduces itself as the Big O.

I think you are the one I have been waiting for,” said the missing piece. “Maybe I am your missing piece.” Few storytellers have immunized us against our adult dullness, generation after generation, more potently than Shel Silverstein (September 25, 1930–May 10, 1999), one of the many beloved authors and artists — alongside Maurice Sendak, E.B. White, Margaret Wise Brown, and dozens of others — whose genius Nordstrom cultivated under her compassionate and creatively uncompromising wing. In a letter from September of 1975, she wrote: “Shel promised me that it was in really good and almost final shape… I hope with all my heart that this is really the case.” Silverstein had gone to visit Nordstrom some weeks earlier and recited the story for her, which she found to be “very very good (in fact terrific).” “I hope he hasn’t messed it up,” she adds in the letter, “and I’m pretty sure he hasn’t.” Nordstrom’s intuition and her unflinching faith in her authors and artists was never misplaced. Silverstein tells the tale of a lonely little wedge that dreams of finding a big circle into which it can fit, so that together they can roll and go somewhere. Various shapes come by, but none are quite right. The Little Piece learnt from being ignored that it needed to do something to attract attention, when attracting too much attention, it realized that it was scaring the shy ones away.This notion is utterly revelatory for the missing piece, doubly so when the Big O asks if it has ever tried. “But I have sharp corners,” the missing piece offers half-incredulously, half-defensively. “I am not shaped for rolling.”

Believe that what you end up getting might be different from what you envisioned, but in no way does it mean that what you end up with, is any less than what you had in mind before. Every relationship, bitter or sweet, has a place in our lives

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Una historia de menos de 50 páginas, pero que te deja una enseñanza muy linda. De nuevo Silvertein muestra en ilustraciones tan sencillas cosas muy complejas. Yo estoy un poco enamorada delos cuentos de este autor, pero creo que este lo pongo como mi favorito de entre todo lo que he leído de él (junto con un pequeño poema) así que yo lo recomiendo para pequeños, grandes, viejos, amargados y optimistas. It starts out on a grand adventure searching for the perfect piece to complete itself, while singing and enjoying the scenery. But after the circle finally finds the exact-sized wedge that fits it, it begins to realize that it can no longer do the things it used to enjoy doing, like singing or rolling slowly enough to enjoy the company of a worm or butterfly. This exchange between the Little Piece and the Big O captures the essence of a heartwarming tale of self-love and discovery in ‘Little Piece meets the Big O’ by Shel Silverstein. A home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature. No importa cuanto lea la primera parte de esta "saga", ni cuanto tiempo pase, este libro me encanta y lo amo, y creo que es esencial que todos lo leamos de niños...y de adultos.

This tale is an amazing testimony to the simplicity with which Silverstein has driven the profound message home in so few words, the way he has named these characters: the Missing Piece, the Big O… it’s genius! None of that worked until it found one that fit, atleast at the start. All was well until the missing piece began to grow. Both of them were not expecting or ready for that to happen. It decides that it was happier when searching for the missing piece than actually having it. So it gently puts the piece down, and continues searching happily. We might start off in a relationship believing firmly in our hearts that this is the best and that nothing could go wrong with it. This may not be the case, as many of us discover in the course of our lives. It proposes to roll with it only to be told in response that it could try rolling by itself. It finds the idea strange, the idea of a pointed missing piece to be able to roll by itself, nevertheless, she tries to explore that idea and Lift-Pull-Flop… Lift-Pull-Flop…. it was able to roll by itself!Albert Einstein once famously remarked “The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.” When trying to appear attractive, it realized that it was taken advantage of and while Big O didn’t take it along with her, it learned the very important lesson of self-discovery and contentment.