Violence in Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

1. universe\nThe award-winning novel, paddy Clarke HA HA HA, by Irish author, Roddy Doyle, is a narrative compose in the voice of a ten-year-old boy, Patrick Clarke. The story is about the piecemeal disintegration of Patricks parents sum ceremony and his familys unchanging the consequences of the crumbling union. The novel addresses the impact of house servant violence and divorce on a child and depicts the resulting work shift of a well-liked and roguish ten-year-old Irish boy into a untimely grown-up expelled adolescent who goes to great drift to assume responsibility for his family and occupy the gap his father leaves when he walks out on his wife and his four little children. Doyle accomplishes to see ten-year-old Patricks transformation through the novels setting, his lieu towards violence and his shifting aesthesis of identity and values. The decay of Patricks, nicknamed rice paddy, parents marriage is juxtaposed with the destruction of his intrinsic environment due to council growth schemes all resulting in rice paddy becoming an object of irony by his former mates, culminating in the scornful verse: Paddy Clarke, Paddy Clarke has no Da! Ha ha ha (Doyle 281). Reynolds and Noakes describe Paddy Carke as one of Doyles well-nigh disturbing novels [as] [i]t begins as a celebration of childhood plainly ends as a remembrance both for childhood and for marriage (114). \nAs the novels setting mainly functions as a physical simile of Paddys development, it is historic to analyze the storys time and place freshman which will be through in the following chapter. Doyle delineates Paddys life in the three aspects that function as pillars of a ten-year-old childs everyday life: friends, schoolhouse and family life. Consequently, it is necessary to how Paddys confrontation with violence right(prenominal) the home is depicted in the third chapter before addressing the boys secern of domestic violence in the fourth chapter ...