Dogsong
by Gary Paulsen
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Author: Gary PaulsenEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-08
ISBN: 1416939199
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Book Reviews of Dogsong
Book Review: Not for Children!!/Parent review
Summary: 1 Stars
I asked his teacher for a copy of this book and a the next one the class was reading
"Dogsong". I ended up going before the schoolboard to have this book removed from the class.
Dogsong is about a 14yo boy who drops out of school and assists in a suicide. The book contains misleading timelines. It takes place in the 1980's. There is reference to
poligamy,
suicide,
assisted suicide,
9+ cats of animal abuse,
cannabolism,
self mutilation,
mercy killings,
killing an unborn child...
"A mother sits with a strangulation string to kill her starving children",
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."
The two kids head north as far as they can go implying they will live together with no mention of marriage.The book ends before they reach their destination. This isn't even a good versus evil book. 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. Reviews say it is enviromental and about survival. The boy has a father. He left his father to live with an older man. He drops out of school. He thinks there is a lack of game because of the snowmobiles. He wants to help bring the old ways back to the Inuit people, but instead of trying to change his people he decides to run with a dog sled as far north as he can possibly travel.
I wonder how the Inuit People feel about this book.
Summary of Dogsong
IN THE OLD DAYS THERE WERE SONGS
Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up.
Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns the last team of dogs in the village, understands Russel's longing for the old ways and the songs that celebrated them. But Oogruk cannot give Russel the answers he seeks; the old man can only prepare him for what he must do alone. Driven by a strange, powerful dream of a long-ago self and by a burning desire to find his own song, Russel takes Oogruk's dogs on an epic journey of self-discovery that will change his life forever.
A Newbery Honor Book
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A School Library Journal Best Book
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