Summary Of Violent Media Is Good For Kids By Gerard Jones

The essay “Violent Media is Good for Kids” by Gerard Jones was published in 2000 by Mother Jones Magazine. The author has several works both in nonfiction and fiction that mostly revolve around comic books. In Jones’ essay, he examines the benefits of introducing violent media into the lives of our youth. Jones’ claims that violent media has helped to inspire people and kids to overcome everyday evil in the world. In paragraph fifteen, Jones states that he “thinks it has helped inspire some people to real life violence” and “can help far more if we learn to use it well”. In his essay, he provides the reasoning behind introducing violence to children is because it can help them to overcome fears and emotions. Jones focuses closely on three children, himself, his son, and a little girl named Emily. The children learned to develop valuable lessons and beliefs from violent actions portrayed in comic books. When Jones was younger, his mother, like most steered him clear of violent media until one day a student of hers enlightened her on the benefits of comic books. Jones claims that the comics “were good for me because they were juvenile. And violent” (paragraph 3). The character “Hulk” allowed for Gerard to fantasy himself being all powerful, fearless and confident in his own skin. By

On day Jones little boy was faced with being fearful to lib a tree that all his friends did. Jones knew how to use comic books to help him overcome this fear, so he introduced the comic od Tarzan. Explaining how Tarzan can swing through branches, fight off all animals and living courageously. Jones knew that by allowing his son to become “fixated on the comic” would allow for his son to “put his fear aside and climb the tree” (paragraph 6). Although the stories Jones provides are valid information for me to base my decision on, they do not classify the rest of the children of the