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Mother against Paulsen
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Don't buy this book, or support this author. He is immoral and speaks of illegal acts. His work is misleading and confusing. Nothing in this book states that these are illgal or immoral acts leading children to accept them as normal behavior.
I read both "Dogsong" and "Brian's Hunt".
The book "Dogsong" contains misleading timelines. It takes place in the 1980's. There is reference to;
-poligamy
-suicide
-assisted suicide
-cannabolism,
-self mutilation,
-9+ cats of animal abuse,
-mercy killings(a mother sits with a strangulation string to kill her starving children),
-disrespect to missionaries and Native Americans.
In "Dogsong" a young teenage girl tries to kill herself becuase she is unwed and pregnant. She gives birth to a stillborn child "from the folds of her skin". She births with "her body writhing forwards and backwards" and delivers right in front of this 14yo boy. He takes the baby out into the snow and leaves it there for the animals to eat. He doesn't even try to wrap it or bury it. Both kids meet no consiquences for killing the baby, let alone all the other illegal acts.
There is also a reference about cannabolism;"Old mother can we eat you until the deer come bacK?.The dear came back that day and we did not have to eat our old dear mother."
I ended up going before the schoolboard to have "Dogsong" removed from the class assginment based on it's very graphic content.
Dogsong is about a 14yo boy who drops out of school and assists in a suicide. The two kids head north as far as they can go. The book ends before they reach their destination which leaves you empty. This isn't even a good verses evil book. Eating raw meat and eyeballs, murder, suicide, dropping out of school.. I can't belive it was even allowed to be rated as young adult fiction.
No child should read this book! There isn't a director in Hollywood that would put these images into a film. My son and several other children in his 6th grade class are reading alternate reading material.
As parents we monitor what they see on tv, internet, and in video games. I never thought I would have to monitor what my child read in school. This book really bothers me weeks after I read it and went before the board. RevDon't buy this book, or support this author. Kid's are learning to kill themselves if they are pregnant and everyone is mad at them? Or how about drop out of school if you are unhappy? Leave home if your father's coughing bothers you. Leave town if missionaries bother you.
I wonder how the Inuit People feel about how they are portrayed as in this book. Drunk, living on welfare |
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