Violence in Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

1. Introduction\nThe award-winning smart, rice 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 wise is ab stunned the gradual insurrection of Patricks parents marriage and his familys enduring the consequences of the crumbling union. The novel addresses the impact of interior(prenominal) power 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 tolerate responsibility for his family and fill the bedcover his father leaves when he walks out on his wife and his quaternion little children. Doyle accomplishes to each(prenominal)egorize ten-year-old Patricks transformation through the novels ground, his attitude towards violence and his shifting sense of identity and values. The decay of Patricks, nicknamed rice paddy, parents marriage is place with the destru ction of his natural environment due to council development schemes all resulting in Paddy befitting an object of derision by his former mates, culminating in the prideful verse: Paddy Clarke, Paddy Clarke has no Da! Ha ha ha (Doyle 281). Reynolds and Noakes make Paddy Carke as nonpareil of Doyles most lamentable novels [as] [i]t begins as a jubilation of childhood but ends as a memorial some(prenominal) for childhood and for marriage (114).\nAs the novels setting mainly functions as a physical metaphor of Paddys development, it is important to die the storys clip and place first which forget be done in the following chapter. Doyle delineates Paddys life in the trine aspects that function as pillars of a ten-year-old childs everyday life: friends, school and family life. Consequently, it is indispensable to how Paddys confrontation with violence outside the firm is depicted in the third gear chapter before addressing the boys recount of domestic violence in the poo p chapter ...