Effects of Reading Comic Books

According to Moore, children need violent entertainment so that they are better able to express feelings they were taught to hide and convert those feelings into problem solving and social skills (79). I can personally relate to Moore’s statement because I have grown up with a little brother. Cartoons such as Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo and Power Rangers had a big impact on mine and my brother’s relationship. For example, I can remember after watching Power Rangers we would make up a game and pretended to protect the city, us being the super heroes that defeated the bad guy and saved the day! The violence created and presented in the cartoons that we watched enabled us to find a common interest between one another. I can’t help but think that those cartoons have also had the same effect on millions of other children around the

In his article “Violent Media Is Good For Kids,” comic book author Gerald Jones, claims that violent media such as comic books and cartoons can have a positive effect on our children because children use violent stories to meet their emotional and developmental needs. Jones argues against other people’s views that violent media will have a negative influence on children. Gerald Jones had many strengths in his article which helped support his argument and could possible make his argument effective. His strengths were mainly the use of emotional appeal like story telling and personal experiences to help convince his audience. While Jones’s essay started off strong, he only gave a few weaknesses like the lack of examples and how he only used one reference, his life, to justify his point of view which in the end did not help persuade the audience.

a psychologist did with urban teens. He said that “Children need violence entertainment to explore the inescapable feelings that they have been taught to deny and to reintegrate those feelings into a more complex selfhood” (200). This is another good point that Jones gave to convince people that violent media is good, but this example is needs more statistic on the results on the use of violent comics in other areas because this is limited to urban kids only and this characteristic created a doubt of the studies that the psychologist did to support the idea

“Comic books were hugely popular among kids of the 1950s.”(Wills 64). Some of the comic books expressed gory details and acts of violence. Two specific comic books “such as Voodoo and Uncanny Tales, featured gory, violent stories about ghosts, zombies, and others monsters”(Wills 64). It’s kind of ironic because comic books were not censored in the 1950s and they were able to be displayed and read by the public. “Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals.”(Bradbury 58).

Mother Jones, an American independent news organization, published the essay, “Violent Media is Good for Kids” by Gerard Jones on June 28, 2000. In this article, Jones, a comic book writer, argues that violent media can have positive effects on children’s behavior. In fact, he asserts that “superhero stories helps kids negotiate the conflicts between the inner self and the public self” (60). Even though Jones’s thesis, refutation, and the conclusion are strong to support his argument, his evidence is weak to convince his audience about his point of view.

They think that matters such as racial themes, alternative lifestyles, profanity, sex, violence, negativity, witchcraft, unpopular religious views, unpopular political views, and basically and theme that is labelled as ‘unsuitable’ for a certain age group should be banned. However, our day-to-day life proves that things like these are unavoidable. 1. “In a media-flooded world, where information travels exactly as fast as your Twitter feed loads, it would take the shield of Captain America to keep the unpleasant facts of reality at bay. And more important, these bullets of candor don’t injure young people. They simply open up their minds, or even offer them something to identify with,” says Jamie Leigh for Punchnel. From driving in your car, listening to the radio, watching TV, walking around your community, one thing is clear – you can’t dodge these topics forever. It’s just part of life. In addition, people may feel as though bad content found in books could encourage bad behavior. Let’s consider violence for example. Violence in the media seems to be a bit of an argument currently going on. 2. According to the Luther College’s article, Does Violence Have a Place in Children’s Literature?, “…this fear and panic rests on the assumption that boys cannot tell the difference between violence in a story and the violence in real life (p. 512).

In the article, “Violent Media Is Good for Kids”, the author, Gerard Jones, begins by providing background information about himself. As a child, Jones was taught that violence was wrong, and as he grew up, he learned that violent comics and stories aided him to become an action movies and comic book writer. In his article, the author addresses why violent media are good for children. He points out that it helps them transform better socially, explore and conquer their feelings, and improves self-knowledge. Jones purpose is to inform readers about the positive use of violent media on children. The author uses rhetorical appeals of pathos and ethos, and stylistic techniques such as allusions and repetitions to create his argument.

The article on violent media is good for kids By: Gerald Jones was a fantastic article. In the article Jones talks about how certain forms of violent media is good for children. There are all a lot of points that go with his statement, or go against it. In this paper I will be talking about Jones’s ideas and point of view on his article.

Why are comics not appreciated as much as the dry narratives of novels in the literary world? A comic is composed of symbols to express concepts shared by all people in their own social environment, and provide more tools than conventional art to truly show artistic intention.

Comics, a medium used to express ideas via images and pictures, can be traced back to the cave period when humans communicated ideas and thoughts using paintings and pictures. However, as humans began to use words to communicate with one another, paintings and pictures as a mode of communication took a backseat. They began to be used only for visual impact whenever needed. In course of time, other than oral communication, written communication and print media were considered effective means of communication. Various genre like novels, poems, short stories, essays were all realized and accepted by scholars as resources to be used when educating children and adults. Inspite of the many famous comics – be it

The essence of writing this article, is to educate and persuade parents and teachers who are skeptical and always tend to protect their kids from exposure to violent media due to fear, thinking that they are helping them but in really sense, they are destroying their kids’ childhood. Due to parents’ failure to expose kids to violent media, kids face challenges like growing up with fear and being easily manipulated. To reinforce his argument and give essence of his argument, Jones uses an example of Hulk who faced challenges due to failure to be exposed to the violent media (59).

Over the years, comic books have reflected what has been happening in the world around

The American versions of the ever popular “Sailor Moon” and “Dragon Ball Z” are vastly different from the Japanese versions.  The Japanese version is more intense and serious, with harsher violence and grittier storyline.  The kids who watch these shows in America and those kids, who watch it in Japan, are the same age, but for some reason it is too edgy for American youth.  I am going to explore why Americans feel the need to censor, how the Japanese culture differs from American, and what this media does to both cultures, and how to solve the growing debate of Japanese media and censorship.

Since the times of the Persian Empires, propaganda has been an effective tool for forces of the State government, or other institutions trying to spread a political message, usually for militarily or humanitarian missions. In modern times, propaganda has taken a new face with the Internet, but during the 1940’s one of the most effective types of propaganda was the use of comic books. Currently comic books are used around the world to spread the message of peace, war, and even religion. For example, in Egypt a comic book is used to spread the word of Islam and what a true Muslim should act like in accordance to Allah. Catholic undertones are used in comic books to spread a message of Christianity to people in an interesting way, with bloody action. In Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War, Superman was used to get out awareness of landmines to the people in affected areas. Comic Books are an effective form of propaganda because they are meant to be interesting, and the superheroes show people how they should be acting during times of strife. Throughout the history of comic books, they have been unifying and brought people together and light to certain messages for people from different countries, cultures, and ethnicities.

Children view violence in different ways when they watch it on television, whether it is cartoons or a type of drama and action programming. After children have watched these television shows, they may have interpreted the meaning into a negative behavior. It could influence them by becoming aggressive, afraid of the world that surrounds them, or it may lead to confusion. When it is said that children may become confused because their parents teach that violence is wrong. When they view someone in a “superhero” position participating in violence, they may see that as it is all right for the simple fact the good person does the action. According to the American Academy of Children and Adolescent Psychiatry, “the impact of TV violence may be immediately evident in the child's behavior or may surface years later (AACAP, 2011).”