Call of the Wild - Why Ban It

After I read Call of the Wild I was more than shocked when I came to realizing it was a banned book.  I found it to be a masterpiece, a dark one, but a masterpiece nonetheless.  I would like to discuss a few of my ideas as to why it should not be a banned book.

First off there is the violence in the novel between both man and animal.  Though it was something one needed to muscle through, the fighting between Buck and the other dogs when he was captured was merely something of the times of the Klondike Gold Rush.  In a way it's like censoring the truth, like censoring Anne Frank's Journal from 5th graders because it has Nazis in it.  Buck becoming a sled dog and having to fight off the other mutts who come for the food of his new owners is another scene where dog-vs-dog really would have happened.  And though it was bloody and violent with a hack and slash sort of manner, it's really no different than Touching Spirit Bear where a boy gets mauled by a bear which represents respect, and yet Call of the Wild is the book that gets banned.  In the end however, Buck goes on a rampage and kills all the indians.  I believe that this section of the story could be compared to Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Meyers where the group of soldiers kill hundreds of Vietnamese soldiers in a sort of last stand.  Both books feature group killings at one time without a real moral to it in particular, however Fallen Angels was something I had the privilege of reading in my elementary school classroom.

Another point one could find to ban it is because of how it represents people of that era.  The indians (hatchees, yathats, yeehats or something like that) massacred the small group of which Buck traveled with without a real purpose that is clear to the reader and makes native Americans look different in a persons eye whom has experienced the novel.  However the book is indeed fiction, so the indians could be compared to any other sort of group that may represent a historical group, like maybe the Russian-styled Skeleton Gang in the Alex Rider Series, which desired to nuke the world.  Yet the Alex Rider series is endorsed as an excellent story for young readers because it makes them love reading.  What is this?  So if you begin to gain some sort of emotional attachment to a story it automatically becomes O.K. to just allow anyone to read?  Then again, would they censor the Giving Tree because it made people cry, or Moonfall because it was such an intense thriller it would cause people's heart rates to spike to extreme levels.  I believe that Call of the Wild should be supported because it gives a clear, accurate example as to how the Klondike Rush period was without pointing any fingers directly at any ethnic groups or races.