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Analysis: Violence Media Is Good For Children

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Today in society most adults and adolescents create the complex structure of what is socially correct. Violence has created an image in everyone’s mind, even if most people don’t agree. Throughout time we enjoy movies, news, video games, and books, however every subject I just mentioned contains to be violent half the time. By human nature everyone is socially handicapped, as we can relate this to the articles “Why we crave horror movies” by Stephen King and “violence media is good for kids” by Gerard Jones given to both authors get there points across by being precise, compelling, and knowledgeable.
King lives in Bangor, Maine, where he writes his best-selling horror novels, many of which have been made into popular movies. As a horror novel …show more content…

He later wrote comic books for marvel Comics and other publishers for several years. When jones was a young boy he was inspired by marvel comics, “they were good for [him] me because they were juvenile. And Violent”. (Jones 3). Jones’s article “violence is good for kids” argues that engaging in fantasy violence can have a positive effect in children. A disagreement or agreement can occur on the topic Jones brought up, but he clearly wants the topic to be educated well enough. I can agree that destroying a child’s imagination is horrible, therefore I would agree with jones’s appeal towards parents wondering what their kids should watch. Jones attitude in the article came off as influential, convincing, and determine, and an instance was were himself and concern parent helped the parents child to socially adjust, “she came out of it just as fiery and strong, but more self-controlled and socially competent: a leader among her peers, the one student in her class who could truly pull boys and girls together” (Jones 567). The way he expressed himself throughout the article was by being helpful in a way to explain the ideals of a child’s development assuming that violence transforms us to someone good. As for Jones, he also inputs his on personal experience of “the character who caught [him] me, and freed [him] me, was the Hulk: over gendered and under socialized, half naked and half witted, ragging a frightened world that misunderstood and persecuted him” (Jones 565). Although both articles can be compared by relating to the topic of violence media affecting the

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