Dear Enemy

Lots of conflicted thoughts on this one. I didn't like it as well as DLL...mostly I didn't like Sallie's view toward the children, though that does improve to some extent. What was the biggest hurdle, though, was: “undesirable” children being parceled off to the “proper institutions” for deaf, epileptic, and so on—plus the doctor who believed implicitly in eugenics and heredity. I found all that very creepy, especially the part where a child too stupid for her own good was thought deserving of a treatment of arsenic for a mere cold...what? Hippocratic oath, anyone? The child wasn't harmed, but the thought was expressed.

Other than all that, it was an interesting, spirited little book, written entirely in letters. I did feel that I missed some stuff in not having any pictures in my edition.