Violence in Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

1. Introduction\nThe award-winning brisk, rice paddy Clarke HA HA HA, by Irish author, Roddy Doyle, is a communicative written in the illustration of a ten-year-old boy, Patrick Clarke. The novel is well-nigh the gradual disintegration of Patricks parents man and wife and his familys enduring the consequences of the crumbling union. The novel addresses the shock of domestic fury and disarticulate on a pincer and depicts the resulting revolution of a well-liked and rascally ten-year-old Irish boy into a prematurely grown-up expelled adolescent who goes to salient effort to assume business for his family and fill the gap his begetter leaves when he walks out on his wife and his four atomic pincerren. Doyle accomplishes to allegorize ten-year-old Patricks transformation through the novels setting, his attitude towards furiousness and his shift key sense of identity and values. The chemical decomposition reaction of Patricks, nicknamed paddy, parents marriage is juxtap osed with the destruction of his natural environment due(p) to council development schemes all resulting in paddy field becoming an bearing of derision by his spring mates, culminating in the scornful verse line: Paddy Clarke, Paddy Clarke has no Da! Ha ha ha (Doyle 281). Reynolds and Noakes describe Paddy Carke as one of Doyles most disturbing novels [as] [i]t begins as a celebration of puerility but ends as a memorial both for childhood and for marriage (114).\nAs the novels setting generally put to works as a physiologic metaphor of Paddys development, it is important to analyze the storys time and prop first which will be done in the adjacent chapter. Doyle delineates Paddys lifespan story in the three aspects that function as pillars of a ten-year-old childs everyday life: friends, school and family life. Consequently, it is necessary to how Paddys confrontation with violence outside the home is render in the third chapter in the beginning addressing the boys rec ount of domestic violence in the fourth chapter ...