Two Questions By Lynda Barve Analysis

Two Questions by Lynda Barry is a comic strip about how she ends up losing her passion for drawing and writing. As a kid she never cared about how her drawings looked because she drew for fun. Then one day all of that changed when people started to give their opinions about what she drew. She enjoyed drawing so much until two questions got stuck in her mind; does this suck or is this good? This resulted in a drastic effect; a drawing that she thought was good was actually bad. Barry was more concerned about what others felt about her drawing but never bothered to think about why she should care about what others have to say. Thus, she spent most of her life trying to just draw “good” drawings, which led to her downfall of not enjoying drawing
Even if they get criticized on their drawing, it's something an individual should enjoy doing instead of worrying about what others think. When children draw, they express their ideas and it shows the creativity that goes on in their head. Like Barry said “Without the two questions so much is possible. To all the kids who quit drawing...come back!” (Barry 68). Meaning if you just draw and write without the acknowledgement of what others think about your own work, then you will feel more pleased about your own piece of work. Which makes you more passionate about what you’re doing. For Barry ever since her mother got a call from school about the inappropriate she drew, it changed her life around. She realized she made a terrible mistake and after that “For the next 30 years I chased after only good drawing” (Barry 63). Thus resulting in her being more concerned about only having good drawings and stories. “I never drew for fun anymore” (Barry 63), all that time she was trying to perfect her own work for others and made sure others liked what she was doing instead of having that mind set of doing it out of her own
Thus leading to frustration because they want to perfect their drawing. Just as Barry said “Pictures and stories happened in a way that didn’t involve much thinking” (Barry 59). What they don’t realize is when they were younger, when they drew, there wasn’t much thinking going on. Their ideas just flowed through their mind. All they did was scribble and make lines and draw simple shapes. As they aged, the drawings were more vivid and thoughtfully processed instead of being random scribbles on a sheet of paper. The scribbles went to shapes which lead on to making figures, by then the creativity in their head shifts into more of perfection. Once a child can’t draw something, they eventually give up on drawing in general. All simply because they aren’t being taught how to draw which results in the lack of