Overview of Violent Cartoons and Children

             Cartoons have accompanied with us since we were born. Everyone must have watched cartoons in childhood. Most of the action and expression in cartoons are actually designed to be exaggerated and unreal in order to impress children. Along with the development of cartoons may start becoming unimaginative, caricaturists may try to add some violent action into cartoons for the purposes of attracting children again. Hitherto, these cartoonists do not consider these additions be actually harmful to children; cartoonists keep on adding more effect like violence, profane languages, and even sexuality into cartoons nowadays for attracting children. Consequently, violent cartoons on television are harmful for children as they may imitate what they see and hear in cartoons, which can gradually influence their mental development and then may lead to social problems in adulthood.
             Children are just like a sponge as they assimilate what they see and hear in cartoons that may lead them to imitate due to curiosity. According to an Assistant Director of Kids who named Sugandha Jain, "The images are apparently pleasing to these young children even though they don't understand much about them. Even this early, however, children can imitate simple physical acts performed on the screen." Children are just curious about actions that are shown in cartoons as such actions ultimately cannot be seen in real life. They like imitating those actions right after watching cartoons. However, they do not know those actions are actually dangerous, violent and unrealistic which may lead them to behave aggressively. For example, the famous cartoon of Warner Bros, "Bugs Bunny", has lots of violent content, such as Elmer Fudd using his gun to chase Daffy Duck. Once Elmer Fudd gets Daffy Duck, he uses his gun to "kill" Daffy Duck. However, Daffy Duck is not really dead and injured; instead, he enjoys being shot and shows hilarious a
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