For the past two weeks, I have been assigned to read a book called "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess from the start to page 130. It's about a kid gone wrong, named Alex who is fifteen years old and has a team of "droogies" which in their language of nadsat means friends. They go out at night time and cause mischief like there is no tomorrow. Although, during the day he acts as any other high school student and he has a taste for classical music. Others like millicents (police), his parents and others see Alex's flaws and want to have them corrected, and Alex himself was the one to make sure of that. After trying to rob a starry (old) woman's house, he was betrayed by his droogs due to bad leadership and egoism, so he was turned into the millicents. They planned to have him corrected by a secret program that hasn't been released to the public...
At first, I was really confused about the wording of the book, since half of it was practically in a different language, but as my teacher expressed, it did become really clear after getting through to about half the book. I can picture in the end of the book, Alex turning into a perfectly good person, because currently they are strongly emphasizing that this new program will permanently correct Alex of all mal-doing. Then again, books always have twists...
I noticed that a part in the book connected to a topic live in today's society, police brutality. There is a scene in the book where Alex is being beaten by whomever wanted to, with acceptance of the police. I'm not sure if it would directly happen in the police station in real life, like it did in the book, but still it's the same rational treatment.
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I agree with you Adrian at first the book was really hard to understand since the droogs and em were talking in nadsat. But eventually you begin to pick up on what the actually mean and makes the reading all the more enjoyable.
As for the prediction aspect it does sometimes have good twists in them but in others you can sort of expect what happens. Viddy what i mean and all that cal?
I like how you connected the book to real life, both in terms of the language and to police brutality. Although the book seems shocking and fictional, really, its only a slight exaggeration of what goes on in the minds of modern youth.
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