Nguyen Nguyen
Professor Patrick D. Murphy
English 1302.91446
November 14, 2016
Pokemon Go or Pokemon “No”
Nowadays, playing a game on the mobile phone is not strange with adults as well as children. The games were designed with eye-catching form and diverse gameplay. Especially, they are becoming more realistic. Pokemon Go, a game has become popular a few months ago, is imitated following the cartoon Pokemon. Players who play Pokemon Go will try to catch Pokemons by using an app on mobile phone. Pokemon Go is said that it will help people connecting together; moreover, it inspires people going outside to exercise. However, others said that Pokemon Go is very dangerous because it takes all of the attention of people when they are playing it
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Sarah Jeong, a contributing editor at Vice’s Motherboard vertical, herself writes, “I never spent as much time outside as I did last weekend, as evidenced by my first sunburn in years. I was playing Pokemon Go” (Jeong). In other words, Jeong believes that Pokemon Go motivated her going outside to work out that she did not do in years. However, is it really an exercise? “That seems more like a Zombie Invasion than the connection many of us hope people will experience”, following Richard Louv, a chairman emeritus of the Children and Nature Network. The purpose of us to go outside is that playing with the nature. However, Pokemon Go makes us walking without soul. People cannot realize the beauty of mother nature as they look down upon their phones. We live in a reality where people like to play with virtual animals than real animals. Although Pokemon Go inspires people go out and explore, it is also just another screen game that distracts us from surroundings. There is a real world for us to explore and discover, so we do not need to explore a digital world. Going outside is the time for us to relax after a tired day with working and studying. The workout has no meaning when our brains and eyes do not workout. Every day, we work, study, even play the game on the computer. Then we watch the shows and the news on the television. After that, we continue to chat with friend on the phone. How many time we look at the screen every day? There are many works we have to counter to the screen, so there is no reason for us to give ourselves another screen game, Pokemon