Gerard Jones Violent Media Is Good For Kids Summary

In “Violent Media Is Good for Kids”, written by Gerard Jones, the author argues that violent entertainments have positive effects on children’s lives beyond their violence and juvenility. In his article, Jones uses a cause and result relationship between violent media and their importance to inform the positive impact of violent media. In addition to informing, Jones tries to persuade parents, teachers, psychologists, and others who are skeptical of the importance of violent media by giving evidence from his own life story and from his research. Furthermore, by informing and by persuading his readers, Jones encourages his readers to experience the significant part of violent entertainments. Even though Jones purpose is to convince about the

According to his article, in paragraph 1, Jones was raised by his English teacher parents who were skeptical about the significance of violent media (58). He grew up by keeping his fear and rage to himself. Even if Jones was brought up in a family that believed violence is harmful, “Marvel Comics” that his mother believed that they give “lofty messages of pacifism and tolerance” made him overcome his fear through their violent feature (58). Jones uses his own life story to indicate how violent media serve as a major turning point in his life where he finally became a comic book writer. Since his life story cannot be applied to every person in the world, his evidence is personal based which makes it biased. This makes this evidence

Jones refutes this opposing argument by using the opinion of Melanie Moore, a psychologist who emphasizes the importance of violent media regarding expressing hidden emotional feelings. As Melanie Moore writes, “Children need violent entertainment in order to explore the inescapable feelings that they’ve been taught to deny….” (59). In his refutation, the use of an expert opinion made his evidence more credible and convincing. In related to Jones research on the implication of violent media on young people’s lives, he created “Power play program” with the help of a psychologist, Melanie Moore. In paragraph 10, Jones stated that the “Power play program” helped children to learn self-developing lessons from violent media (59). In this paragraph of his article, Jones saw a progressive change in children with their ability to reveal their feelings. Jones illustrates the optimistic consequences of the power play program by describing the way that violent media helped the two girls, that he worked within the program. Overall, the “Power play program” assisted many young people to overcome their fear and to “master their rage”