"The Missing Piece Meets the Big O" outen the friendship

The story “The Missing Piece Meets the Big O” by Shel Silver stein is delineation about one missing piece was finding another imperfect to match. And he met many different configurations but no one he could fit in. At last he meets the big o who told him “There is no place would you fit. You should roll by yourself.” So the missing piece became a roll by himself.

After I read this story I think it can represent “friendship”. Everyone has the defects of his qualities even though the saint. In the process those configurations which the missing piece met represent ones friends in his life. First he met the quadrate even he can fit in but it not the roll. That means they are always fighting because their concept might be different. So they can’t move. There is another can move but not fit in because their thinking, character, methods are different. And some might fit in but they didn’t know the method because their perception is dissimilitude. They are selfish that never care about others opinion. At last he met the big O who is a perfect one. So the missing piece was rolled by himself like people amend their blemish.

Wear away one’s sharp and be better to myself can make more friends.

About "On the line"

The story “On the line” is describes a calling for an emergency thing. Mrs. Washington was called a supervisor for help because a little girl was swallowed some pills. But when she called hospital to request an ambulance the operator refused her for she was not the client. Then she called the telephone company operator for help. At last they thought one way calling Mrs. Washington’s neighbors. The first phone call was no answer; the second phone call was a clammy man who said “It’s not my business". And the third phone call was Mrs. Thomas. She promised to see what happened. In the story the particular characters I choose was the supervisor who was enthusiasm. He or she was a good person to help others and never give up. But in the end Mrs. Thomas was looking at the scene before her, she realized what the emergency was. The story didn’t write what was the really emergency thing. It’s mystery and attracts me.

The story “On the line” pointed that how clammy people are in our society. The people in the story are unconcerned about the others. What they do really care about are themselves. In other words, they are all selfish. We could clearly see that people in the story except for the supervisor of telephone. Company with the neighbor Mrs. Thomas only thought that what responsibilities they may take if they accept the emergency request. They are so stubborn and selfish that they could not believe what the other said.