![]() ![]() ![]() He does this by his clever use of language, and also in how he arranges his sentences to convey deep emotion and feeling than any emotive language could: ?He?d hit her. One of the reasons for Roddy Doyle?s success lies in creating a realistic and convincing character for a 10-year old child. We see the violence in Paddy’s life peripherally Doyle tells us nothing more than what the child sees and comprehends. Doyle?s achievement is how he alternates the poetic and realistic without once lapsing into stream-of-self-consciousness the only way we – as readers can tell it’s written by an adult, is by the spelling. With regard to the parent?s break up, how does Doyle achieve this? There are many factors which suggest how Doyle has succeeded in creating a ‘triangular relationship’ between himself the reader and the narrator ? Paddy Clarke ? so that the reader has a greater awareness of the predicament that Paddy is in. ![]() The novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha has no authorial presence at all, yet the reader gains a richer understanding of the situation than Paddy ? or any other 10-year old ? could ever have. ![]()
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