In the reading, Violent Media Is Good for Kids, it talks about how as a child, author Gerard Jones, was sheltered and afraid to join peers in adolescent boyhood. He drew himself into passivity and loneliness, until his mother gave him a marvel comic that changed his life forever. By reading comics, he said, it has freed him. As the reading goes on, Jones tells also how comics have helped his son. But, although he and his son have found comfort through comics, many people say they are too intense, and lead to real life violence. “Across-generalizations, genders, and ethnicities I kept seeing the same story: people pulling themselves out of emotional traps by immersing themselves in violent stories.” This is an excerpt from Violent Media Is
