"The new pornography depicts ... people staving teeth in, ripping guts open, blowing brains out, and getting even with al those bastards..."(Wolfe, 655). Just as Wolfe describes in his essay "Pornoviolence," violence has become a staple in movies, TV series', and the media. These grotesque images have become so common that for some young children the barrier between reality and fantasy has become blurred. Children see their favorite actors killing and maiming in high definition video for some cause or another on an almost daily basis. How can children, whose understanding of the world is still developing, not be affected by these often overdone portrayals of violence? The truth is that no matter how much we would like to think they are not, children's minds are being shaped by what they see on television and in movies.
Children's lives revolve around television more and more these days. Accordin
The period between first and fifth grade are essential to the development of young children. Because the adolescent mind grows and changes the most in this period, a child's grasp on reality is not firm, which causes a child's perceptions to rule its judgment ("Stages). Psychologists believe that children's perception of reality can be affected in three major ways by excessive violence: they may become desensitized to the world around them, they may fear the world around them because of a belief that violence exists in the real world as it does on television, and children are more likely to act aggressively towards others ("Children"). This aggression is due to a desensitizing of pain and violence. The child constantly sees character's die, and soon the child becomes so used to these scenes that the thought of committing an act of aggression or violence looses its power as being considered "bad" ("Children"). Psychologist
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