I, Pencil !!

I, Pencil:
I think that the main message of this story is to express the ideas that this “pencil has. And those ideas are that, when you look at a pencil, you see just a simple writing utensil, but really behind it all, there is SO much work from different workers to complete this one pencil. The pencil wants to make sure that you know how many materials and supplies you need to make such a “seemingly so simple” object that’s part of our everyday life. But then it states, “Not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me”. He/she goes into deep detail about the different products within this pencil but the most important part is that for that ONE supply, you have about 5 different processes to get that product. “Consider these miners and those who make their many tools and makers of the paper sacks in which the graphite is shipped and those who make the string that ties the sacks and those who put them aboard ships and those who make the ships” as you see the list goes on and on, about the wood that makes the ships, the people that cut the wood, etc etc. it’s a never ending process for one thing! The “pencil” wants to make sure that you know that “millions of human beings have had a hand in my creation”.
There are two points being made here in this story: that A- the pencil is so simple , but no one can seem to understand it, and then B- that there are millions and millions of people that give their all for the making of this pencil. When you connect the two you realize that people don’t even care about this pencil. It’s a part of our everyday life that we don’t even think about stuff like how’s it’s made and what’s its ingredients? “For each of these millions sees that he can thus exchange his tiny know-how for the good and services he needs or wants”. Which is basically saying that the people who offer the services don’t even care about what they are making or the people who BUY the product don’t really think about all the work that is done behind it. When the pencil makers in the factory are making these pencils and adding the lead and wax, etc they don’t think about how the wax was made and who made it, how and were did it come from? They just do their services and get what they want, MONEY!