Voice and perspective: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
The following passage from Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha has always been a favourite. It captures a child's point of view with beautiful simplicity: the warmth and safety of home, the delicious secrecy of a special hiding place, and then, at the end, the sadness of getting older and bigger. It is also a great passage for some focused work on narrative perspective. The first person child narrator is an...