Call Of The Wild Should Not Be Banned From Schools

Why Call of the Wild Should Not Be Banned From Schools.

Written in 1903, the extraordinary story Call of the Wild by Jack London has been banned, burned, and challenged due to the themes of Individualism, radical freedom, and bloody violence that pervade through the story. I believe this novel should not be removed from high school libraries.

Biography.

The author of Call of the Wild John Griffith Chaney, later known as Jack London, was born on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. Jack, the name he had begun to use as a child, was the son of unmarried mother Flora Wellman and William Chaney, an attorney, journalist and American astrologist. His mother ended up marrying John London, a Civil War veteran, who moved his new family around

The year he had survived a terrifyingly distressing sealing voyage, one in which a typhoon had nearly taken out London and his entire crew. The seventeen-year-old teen had made it home in one piece to tell the tale to his mother. When she saw an announcement in one of the local papers for a writing contest, she pushed her son to write down and submit the story of his sealing voyage. But despite having only an eighth-grade education, London won the twenty-five dollar first prize, beating college students from Berkeley and Stanford. For London, the contest was a life changing experience, and it was then that he decided to begin his life of writing short stories. But the young Jack London had trouble finding willing publishers. After taking a chance on the East Coast, he returned to California and briefly enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, before heading north to Canada to try his hand at a small fortune in the gold rush happening in the Yukon. He then returned to California, still determined to make a living as an aspiring writer. His experience in the Yukon had convinced him he had stories to tell. In 1899 he began publishing stories in the Overland Monthly. The experience of writing and getting published greatly disciplined London as a