Roddy Doyles Paddy Clark: No More Laughing For Paddy Essay -- essays r

Roddy Doyles Paddy Clark No More Laughing for PaddyYer throw Here Poetry/Fiction Paddy Clarke     Roddy Doyles Paddy Clarke HA HA HA was a beautifully writ ex book. Itperfectly captures the mind of a ten year old boy in Ireland during the mid-1960s. Paddy Clarke, the young boy who Doyle uses to enter the mind of a tenyear old, is a boy who nearly skunk relate to. The book explores most aspects oflife through the eyes of Paddy. Doyle takes us through childhood and childhoodsend. Doyle is able to seize the complexities of life, but at the similar timesimplify them enough for ten year old.     Everything is a mystery or an adventure to Paddy and his friends. Fromtaking over construction sites to receiving polio check-ups. thus far noteverything is a game to Paddy. His parents lack of compatibility troubles Paddyand his brother Sinbad greatly. The intensity of his parents argumentsaccelerate as the book goes on. At times Paddy feels he can st op them, at onepoint he considers himself a "referee" in the fights. "I didnt know what Id do.If I was there he wouldnt do it again, that was all."(p.191) He ends upcontemplating who he would want to win. He comes to the conclusion that he wouldwant his mom to win because she does so much for him, however his father is hisfather and he loves him.     Sinbad reacts differently to his parents fighting. He doesnt try tointervene ...