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The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

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I came to this book reluctantly. Another book club choice I hadn't made; didn't want to read about domestic violence in general or an abused woman in particular. Reynolds, Margaret, and Jonathan Noakes. Roddy Doyle: The Essential Guide. London: Random House, 2004. Another proof that Paula Spencer was a survivor is that she was an optimist. The heroine saw bright moments even in the dark. Therefore, as she talked with her two sisters about their father, Paula saw her parent in brighter colors than her sisters: In fact, the author made it clear that the society was not interested in asking questions and revealing the truth as well. As she was on the hospital bed, everybody refused to look at her:

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From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will stay with you long after reading. Recent research shows that unless battered women are asked in a direct and supportive fashion about the violence they still may remain silent. 5 Why didn't they ask? Were they too busy or unaware or is it something more sinister than that? Paula Spencer was in no doubt: “It was my little secret and they all helped me keep it”. 6 Where I grew up […] you were a slut or a tight bitch, one or the other, if you were a girl – and usually before you were thirteen. If you were good-looking; if you grew up fast. If you had a sexy walk; if you had clean hair, if you had dirty hair. If you wore platform shoes, and if you didn’t. Anything could get you called a slut. My father called me a slut the first time I put on mascara. (Doyle 43) What makes Paula visit the Fleming estate —the scene of Charlo’s crime —and why does she mentally re-create the events that took place there?Roddy Doyle (born 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. Paula finds solace in her children, yet she admits to occasionally striking them and neglecting them when she is drunk. Do you think that she is a good parent? The best parent she can be under the circumstances?

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For fourteen years he taught high school geography and English in North Dublin, but during his holidays and spare time he concentrated on writing fiction. His efforts have made him one of Ireland’s most popular authors. He is the author of four previous novels, the first of which, The Commitments, was made into Alan Parker’s 1991 hit movie. His second novel, The Snapper. was also made into a movie, with a screenplay by Doyle and directed by Stephen Frears. The Van was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize; Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha won the Booker Prize in 1993. Doyle has also written two plays, Brownbread and War, which enjoyed successful runs in Dublin. His four-part series, Family, was written for the BBC and was aired in England and Ireland to great acclaim, attention, and controversy over its handling of the topic of domestic abuse. It was through writing the teleplay for Family that the story of The Woman Who Walked Into Doors emerged. Allen Randolph, Jody. "Roddy Doyle, August 2009." Close to the Next Moment: Interviews from a Changing Ireland. Manchester: Carcanet, 2010. Well, I grew up in a house filled with children, and there were always books around. I remember reading a lot of Enid Blighton —I think she’s written something like a hundred books, and I think my sisters had a lot of them. I also read a lot of books about football, for some reason. Later, in high school, I remember reading John Irving and really liking him. And my friends and I passed around books that we liked. I remember reading Flann O’Brien, who’s really quite funny. A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact. They see, a happy, smiling woman in a garden filled with plants. She drinks a cup of coffee and she’s writing in her notebook, a happy cat purrs away at her feet. Everything looks peachy. Domestic violence doesn’t live on this street. Except that it does – you just don’t see my scars, or what I’m writing in my notebook.In the novel’s opening scene, Paula is informed of her husband’s death by a young policeman. They have what appears to be a very casual conversation, and in fact, Paula doesn’t find out how her husband died until much later. What does this tell you about Paula? As the reader can see, all men she encountered in life were either abusive or egocentric. That gives her hard time to trust in people and have faith in kindness. Much later, the present Paula realizes it was pointless to please them since such people would never be pleased with anyone. I don’t know a single woman who has ever actually “walked into a door”. But I do know a few who were pushed, slammed or thrown into one by someone who once claimed to “love” them.

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