Call Of The Wild Research Paper

Many will argue that “Call of the Wild” is a good book and is useful for a quick read. However, I have come to the conclusion that “Call of the Wild” should be banned from our 8th grade English curriculum. The book “Call of the Wild,” contains a false view of Indians, no literary value, and contains content which isn’t appropriate for our age.

My first reason which proves that “Call of the Wild” should be banned from our 8th grade curriculum is the false perception it has created on Indians. In “Call of the Wild,” there is a group of indians called the Yeehat Indians. In the story, the Indians attack John Thornton's camp, and kills him and others. This behavior is assumed that all Indian groups act like this. Even tho the Yeehat Indians are a fictional tribe, the behavior they conveyed is then put onto real Indian tribes. Because of the …show more content…
By literary value, I mean a book which students can learn from through reading. Other books in our curriculum are like “The Diary of Anne Frank,” and a book from another class, “Fever 1793.” The two books which I listed have literary value. In order to learn what the book is about, you need to read it. And by reading it, you get an understanding of what it was like. “Call of the Wild” is a book which you can’t learn from. There is no literary value behind it. My second idea is that it is in the unit “Reading Critically.” Any book which is a challenging read and/or has questions which make you think hard and critically can be placed in this unit. Books which follow those qualifications are books like “The Pearl,” and “Tom Sayer.” Any challenging book or one which has critical questions to go along with it could be in this unit. Some will argue that the book is a classic and can’t be left out of the world. I’t is a classic, but just because it is doesn't mean it has to be incorporated into the