From reading the opinions of Dan Hopper, Gerarod Jones, Oscer Wilde, and Moore, it is noted that violence in books can have a positive affect on the reader. Gerarod Jones believes that violence in books is good for kids to read. He explains, “Adult/parents are taken this issue way too far and as a result they limit their child too much. Creative Violence helps far more children then they hurt…” Jones himself claims his parents did not trust the violent wor

Moore and Jones, each raising a daughter of their own, claim: “Children use violent stories to meet their emotional and developmental needs, and ways in which adults can then use these stories healthily. Jones gives us an example of just what he actually is talking about. He explains: “I knew one little girl who went around exploiting with really violent fantasies… Her parents were separating and she was small, an only child, and a tomboy at that age when her classmates were dividing sharply along gender lines. On the playground she acted out “sailor moon” fights, and in the classroom she wrote stories about people being stabbed with knives. The more adults tried to control her stories, the more she acted out the roles of her angry heroes, breaking rules, testing limits, roaring threats. Then her mother and I started helping her by telling her stories. She wrote them, performed them, and drew them like comics. Sometimes it was bloody, sometimes tender, always blending the images of pop culture with her own most private fantasies. She came out of it just as fiery and strong, but more self-controlled and socially competent: a leader among her peers, the one student in her class who could truly pull boy’s and girl’s together. Although Jones admits that violent stories are not harmless. In which some cases it has helped inspired some people to real-life violence. Jones does argue; “Our fear of youth violence isn’t well-founded on reality, and that the fear can do more harm then the reality.” (Jones)

ruined.” (Matt Olsen) Jacques and Jan Hanna feel the same way because they feel they want to reduce the amount of violence there are in books. “There is so much mental corruption that kids are exposed to, including every single time a child reaches for a library card. By simply preventing our impressionable children from reading or having offensive material we could get the root of social evil.” (Jacques and Jan Hanna) They believe that the public library even gives kids appalling books for them to read.

Both controversial sides (weather they were for violence in literature or against it) es

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