Review: "Why do children insist on making life horrible for each other."
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 18, 2013
Is there any adult who does not remember a time of terror on the playground?  This story has made literal the wounds of childhood, wounds often made psychically.  As his friend tells him, "Maybe it's just how you look at it Charlie."This story is especially potent in our world of helicopter parents, equipment suits, and the safety police.  But for all that, a child alone with his peers still faces the danger of the tender mercies of other children.  This story invokes the forever world of a child's day, the day that stretches for years.  This is a classic Bradbury invoking the wish of every parent to take on his child's pain in his stead....