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A review by lilmatt050
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O by Shel Silverstein
5.0
If you would like to read my review for the first book it is located right here: The Missing Piece
I have recently been rediscovering Shel Silverstein's works of children's books and I have to admit these books are self-help books meant for adults but disguised as a children book. When I read The Missing Piece I really enjoyed the story and I felt like the book left out a major key role when it came to the missing piece and then I discovered thanks to Wikipedia that he wrote the sequel and I immediately needed to read it so I checked it out from the library.
This book is technically a sequel because it features the missing piece from the first book but this alone feels more like a companion book. In this story it leaves off right where the first book ended which is Pacman left the missing piece by the curve because he was bored now that he has found his missing piece and threw it away like trash.
Now that the missing piece is alone it is desperate to find another owner who would accept him into their shape and for the most part fails. The missing piece does the nice approach on waiting for a shape to arrive then transforms into this maniac making big sparkly signs scaring away other shapes. When the missing piece meets the Big O, the shape believes that they have found their savior. Unfortunately the Big O has no use of the missing piece because its complete and suggests to the missing piece to try changing to another shape on its own and hopefully someday they will meet.
If you really look at this book it is clearly illustrated that the missing piece is a reference to all the lonely people in the world. When we get older most people don't know how to cope with being alone and not finding the right person and have a healthy relationship. The longer we are by ourselves the more desperate we become, willing to sacrifice our own principles in order to feel less lonely. We believe that by finding a relationship it will solve our dilemma so become desperate towards finding someone when in fact we are doing more harm and going against the natural flow of order.
Instead on focusing on potential partners we need to focus on ourselves. If you are unhappy about your life whether it be your work, your family, or friends find the root of your troubles and learn how to fix it and change. Cut the chains that tie you down and find new things to do whether it be a hobby or new routine. By being open and free we learn how to become independent and happy. By doing different things we learn different sides of our personality and potentially discover our identity. By changing and molding ourselves we become a different person and have higher self-esteem. By not pursing a relationship and flowing the flow of things we become humble and when we least expect we find someone who will change our world. The best part of it all is we are with them because they make us happy and not because they are the solution to our problem.
This was such a cute and powerful book for me. Even though the message is so simple I feel like it spoke volumes for me. Everyone should read this book and reflect for a moment on your life and see if you are happy. Life is too short to be miserable and we need more books like these to help empower our children and ourselves.
I have recently been rediscovering Shel Silverstein's works of children's books and I have to admit these books are self-help books meant for adults but disguised as a children book. When I read The Missing Piece I really enjoyed the story and I felt like the book left out a major key role when it came to the missing piece and then I discovered thanks to Wikipedia that he wrote the sequel and I immediately needed to read it so I checked it out from the library.
This book is technically a sequel because it features the missing piece from the first book but this alone feels more like a companion book. In this story it leaves off right where the first book ended which is Pacman left the missing piece by the curve because he was bored now that he has found his missing piece and threw it away like trash.
Now that the missing piece is alone it is desperate to find another owner who would accept him into their shape and for the most part fails. The missing piece does the nice approach on waiting for a shape to arrive then transforms into this maniac making big sparkly signs scaring away other shapes. When the missing piece meets the Big O, the shape believes that they have found their savior. Unfortunately the Big O has no use of the missing piece because its complete and suggests to the missing piece to try changing to another shape on its own and hopefully someday they will meet.
If you really look at this book it is clearly illustrated that the missing piece is a reference to all the lonely people in the world. When we get older most people don't know how to cope with being alone and not finding the right person and have a healthy relationship. The longer we are by ourselves the more desperate we become, willing to sacrifice our own principles in order to feel less lonely. We believe that by finding a relationship it will solve our dilemma so become desperate towards finding someone when in fact we are doing more harm and going against the natural flow of order.
Instead on focusing on potential partners we need to focus on ourselves. If you are unhappy about your life whether it be your work, your family, or friends find the root of your troubles and learn how to fix it and change. Cut the chains that tie you down and find new things to do whether it be a hobby or new routine. By being open and free we learn how to become independent and happy. By doing different things we learn different sides of our personality and potentially discover our identity. By changing and molding ourselves we become a different person and have higher self-esteem. By not pursing a relationship and flowing the flow of things we become humble and when we least expect we find someone who will change our world. The best part of it all is we are with them because they make us happy and not because they are the solution to our problem.
This was such a cute and powerful book for me. Even though the message is so simple I feel like it spoke volumes for me. Everyone should read this book and reflect for a moment on your life and see if you are happy. Life is too short to be miserable and we need more books like these to help empower our children and ourselves.