Analysis Of What It Is By Lynda Barry

To start off, the theme of the novel is education. This was demonstrated when the character experienced and/or the author wrote “Mr.Ross kept asking questions, and around the room students jumped

One reason, the “Two Questions” section is useful is when it shows the start of creativity from imagination. In the section Barry states, “The lines made a picture and the picture made a story. I wasn’t the only kid it happened to. Every kid I know could do it” (124).

Gregory Crewdson’s photographs are rich in details that evoke different emotions, narratives, and engage the audience’s interest. He carefully chooses different lighting, camera angles, and other elements to help develop a visual and mental story to the audience. Through his photographs, he digs into a commonplace and challenges the normal reality to bring forth things that are surreal, haunting, or desirous. His photographs are very unique and creative, and they capture the sense of alienation and unreality. The photographs are very abstract and they tell a strong story visually but an even stronger story mentally. In flash fiction, the writer uses sensory details to engage the reader’s interest and help convey a visual image. The writer has

What does it mean to be human? It means having a beating heart, brain, two legs, and two arms that take place as a human body. Humans are alike in many ways not only physically, but how they feel, act, and think. Shared humanity consists of six characteristics that humans share which are: relationships, emotions, morality, survival, loss, and choice. These characteristics are shown in the book How I Live Now, The poem Numbers Man, and the short story The Scarlet Ibis.

Since the beginning of the American feminist movement in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention to the present, gender equality has been heavily debated and discussed. The liberties being called for by feminists have changed over the years, but their message has always remained the same; equality for all women and men. “Lean In…”, written by modern day feminist and COO at Facebook, is a new age telling of the difficulties and inequalities women face in the current day corporate front office. The author, Sheryl Sandberg, uses personal anecdotes and experiences to come up with her own versions of the definition of feminism, the importance of a “life partner”, and how women are to achieve

The attitude toward the topic Barry is writing about is positive, uplifting, and inspiring. She wrote, “I loved to read when I was little.” She includes love with everything she described, making the reader feel comfortable knowing that this story is loveable and happy. This short

Barry felt her parents cared more about their financial situation and finding a solution then to notice her. We can see this when she writes “two parents in a panic to locate an answer to the hard questions of survival during a deep financial and emotional crisis”(143).

Being able to physically immortalize an ephemeral visual experience tantalized me as the ability to accurately capture such moments eluded me. The future took form when, determined to hone my potential successfully, I signed up for drawing lessons of my own volition at age 9. The second formal induction was a grammar school science teacher’s introduction to a world of creativity called inventions. Life had a new purpose when I realized the possibilities Michelangelo’s and DaVinci’s

The career of illustration is a unique and fascinating career. where you take ideas and transfer them onto paper. With illustration, everyone can see someone’s world of imagination on display in an image. Chris Van Allsburg had this to say about his creative process “At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.” (Chris Van Allsburg). Many people ignore illustration and brush it off to the side, but it is incredibly useful for society.

Perhaps the most notable analysis in the stages of development comes from the work of Marcia Baghban (2007) who studied the link between drawing and writing in early childhood. Baghban hypothesized that children use writing and drawing as a tool for thinking, organizing ideas, and understanding experiences. In addition, she

In the next line of the poem, Whitman continues to encourage the reader. If we choose to interpret the child?s question as applied to the whole poem, it does at first seem that we are right back where we started from, saying ?What is this thing?? But Whitman now places himself right beside us, telling us that ?[he] do[es] not know what it is any more than [the child]? (91). This is reassuring?maybe we?re not so dumb if even Whitman can?t answer the question. By addressing the reader directly (?How could I answer the child?? (91)) he catches our attention. The poet is here, we think, maybe he can help us out. In a way we have assumed the position of the child, and we too wait for Whitman to give us some clue to the mystery that is his poem. By claiming ignorance, Whitman assures us that we are at least as equipped to find meaning in the grass (his work) as he is.

choosing the future of creativity. It is about the opportunity for creators to build on the

Barry's overall message in the text is to show people how not everyone's world is perfect and all that great. People's lives have flaws and not everything may turn out how it was planned. She also mentions how all people are important, even if they attend a public school. In the story when she was talking about her life at home she says, "In an overcrowded and unhappy home, it’s incredibly easy for any child to slip away" (Barry 10). By saying this she is referring to herself and saying how people need to notice how no family lives a pure life where nothing goes wrong and they all have issues like her; they may not be as bad but nothing is perfect. She is also saying how everyone needs a place to go to where people will notice and welcome them.

I enjoyed Barry’s narrative because she used specific detail referring to her emotions as specific events took place in the story. Even though Barry was a child when the narrative took place, her story has a double perspective; one involving a child sneaking out of the house to attend school early, and another being a grown woman making commentary on the American school system. One of the specific details that caught my eye as a reader was the fact that during class the teacher would excuse certain children to go to the back of the class and be free to express themselves artistically. The fact that the teacher would only pick certain students that she felt needed that time as a sort of catharsis is Barry’s way of describing through personal

Creativity comes easily to Ada. She has hidden secrets in her family that she has no idea about. Her creativity comes from her father. She never never knew him yet she is just like him.