In "Violent media is good for kids", Jones takes the position that violent media is not that bad for kids. He uses many of his personal experiences to make his argument.
In the first Paragraph he tells us a little about his life. He says, "Places in a small, experimental school that was wrong for me, afraid to join my peers in their bumptious rush into adolescent boyhood, I withdrew into passivity and loneliness. His parents never trusted the violent world and never let him merge with the american pop culture.
Then The Incredible Hulk smashed into his life. He uses the next four paragraphs talking about how The Hulk changed his way of seeing life. For example, he says that it was the character that "caught" and "freed" him. He was impressed and obsessed with the over gendered, under socialized and raging nature of the Hulk.
In paragraph 6, he talks about his son. He uses an incident which included his son's friends climbing a tree which his son couldn't as he was afraid. He then read his old Tarzan comics which were rich in combat. His son lived in those for two weeks and then he climbed the tree.
(An image from the most popular shooting game,
Call of Duty)
Paragraphs 9,10 and 11 are used to show how he had given a new route to violent entertainment by working with Melanie Moore who worked with urban teens. Together, they developed Power Play, a program for helping young people improve their self-knowledge and sense of potency through heroic, combative story telling. He quotes, "The dual identity concept at the heart of many super hero stories helps kids negotiate the conflicts between the inner self and the public self.
"Rage can be an energizing emotion" He says children can engage the rage, come to fear it less and become more capable of utilizing it against life challenges.
He gives an example of a little girl who had lost her family and who went exploding with fantasies so violent that other moms would draw her mom aside to show concern. He helped her by helping her tell her own stories. She wrote, performed and drew them. Eventually, she came out just as fiery and strong, but more self-controlled and socially competent.
In the end, he says, "We send the send the message to our children that their craving for imaginary gun battles is wrong or at least dangerous." According to Jones, when we try to protect our children from their own feelings and fantasies, we shelter them not against the violence, but against their strength, power and self hood.
I agree with Jones's idea. He uses many real life incidents and supportive examples to make his argument. He could use more facts and proved studies, but his argument was good enough to prove his point.
Jones,Gerard, "Violent media is good for Kids" Mother of Jones, 28 june, 2000.
In the first Paragraph he tells us a little about his life. He says, "Places in a small, experimental school that was wrong for me, afraid to join my peers in their bumptious rush into adolescent boyhood, I withdrew into passivity and loneliness. His parents never trusted the violent world and never let him merge with the american pop culture.
Then The Incredible Hulk smashed into his life. He uses the next four paragraphs talking about how The Hulk changed his way of seeing life. For example, he says that it was the character that "caught" and "freed" him. He was impressed and obsessed with the over gendered, under socialized and raging nature of the Hulk.
In paragraph 6, he talks about his son. He uses an incident which included his son's friends climbing a tree which his son couldn't as he was afraid. He then read his old Tarzan comics which were rich in combat. His son lived in those for two weeks and then he climbed the tree.
(An image from the most popular shooting game,
Call of Duty)
Paragraphs 9,10 and 11 are used to show how he had given a new route to violent entertainment by working with Melanie Moore who worked with urban teens. Together, they developed Power Play, a program for helping young people improve their self-knowledge and sense of potency through heroic, combative story telling. He quotes, "The dual identity concept at the heart of many super hero stories helps kids negotiate the conflicts between the inner self and the public self.
"Rage can be an energizing emotion" He says children can engage the rage, come to fear it less and become more capable of utilizing it against life challenges.
He gives an example of a little girl who had lost her family and who went exploding with fantasies so violent that other moms would draw her mom aside to show concern. He helped her by helping her tell her own stories. She wrote, performed and drew them. Eventually, she came out just as fiery and strong, but more self-controlled and socially competent.
In the end, he says, "We send the send the message to our children that their craving for imaginary gun battles is wrong or at least dangerous." According to Jones, when we try to protect our children from their own feelings and fantasies, we shelter them not against the violence, but against their strength, power and self hood.
I agree with Jones's idea. He uses many real life incidents and supportive examples to make his argument. He could use more facts and proved studies, but his argument was good enough to prove his point.
Jones,Gerard, "Violent media is good for Kids" Mother of Jones, 28 june, 2000.
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