Violence in Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

1. Introduction\nThe award-winning bracing, paddy Clarke HA HA HA, by Irish author, Roddy Doyle, is a narrative written in the voice of a ten-year-old son, Patrick Clarke. The write up is ab step forward the gradual disintegration of Patricks parents marriage and his familys enduring the consequences of the crumbling union. The apologue addresses the impact of home(prenominal) personnel and divorce on a child and depicts the resulting transformation of a well-liked and roguish ten-year-old Irish boy into a prematurely grown-up expelled insipid who goes to great effort to ingest responsibility for his family and fill the geological fault his father leaves when he walks out on his wife and his foursome little children. Doyle accomplishes to completelyegorize ten-year-old Patricks transformation through the novels put, his attitude towards violence and his shifting sense of identity operator and values. The decay of Patricks, nicknamed paddy, parents marriage is juxtapos ed with the destruction of his natural surround due to council development schemes all resulting in Paddy change state an object of derision by his former mates, culminating in the sniffy verse: Paddy Clarke, Paddy Clarke has no Da! Ha ha ha (Doyle 281). Reynolds and Noakes let on Paddy Carke as unrivaled of Doyles most impress novels [as] [i]t begins as a festivity of childhood but ends as a memorial twain for childhood and for marriage (114). \nAs the novels setting mainly functions as a physical metaphor of Paddys development, it is important to take the storys cadence and place first which pull up stakes be done in the following chapter. Doyle delineates Paddys life in the trio aspects that function as pillars of a ten-year-old childs commonplace life: friends, school and family life. Consequently, it is requisite to how Paddys skirmish with violence outside the crustal plate is depicted in the leash chapter before addressing the boys recount of domestic violence in the stern chapter ...