Yet it offered "difficulties" to young readers because it did not have the guidance that was offered by the third-person narrator of Golding's novel. A teacher in the audience confirmed that Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha was taught in schools like some recension of Golding's fable. More than one observed that the cruelty of children is enacted in the chant that becomes the book's title. Comparisons with Lord of the Flies were common. As Doyle was trying to explain the technique, at least half those in the room were miming the twisting motion of the chinese burn.ĭoyle's novel seemed to many to bring to life a child's mixing of sadism and sentiment. Others in the audience were not so innocent.
She told us that she was one of six children, but clearly had escaped the sibling tortures that Paddy routinely visits on his loyal younger brother, Sinbad. "Would you be prepared to explain to the uninitiated what a chinese burn or a dead leg is?" asked one of them. W hen Roddy Doyle came to the Guardian book club to discuss his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, the novel's details of violence intrigued many of his readers.
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