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The Call of the Podcast

This is my Action Project for my core class Forbidden Books. In this Action Project, we have each picked a censored book and read it. The book I chose was The Call of the Wild. This was a book that I had read many times before, and I have loved it each time. It was interesting to find out that this book was censored. So, why was The Call of the Wild banned? It was banned in Yugoslavia and Italy for being "too radical" and was burned by the Nazis because of the author's well-known socialist leanings. So...yeah, interesting right? In this podcast, I am interviewing my father and he is representing John Thornton from my book. This book takes place in 1896 Canada. In this unit, we have studied different religions and beliefs or also known as "dogma" and looked at how it relates to why a book is banned/censored. We studied Christianity and we also went to a mosque to take a closer look at Islamic culture. The podcast is going to be a deeper dive into John's do...