Alex is sentences to 14 years in state prison. He makes the best of his time there, but he killed a new cellmate in a brawl. The prison decides to send Alex to a reform to "make him a good boy". Alex doesn't take it seriously and only pays attention to the fact that it lasts two weeks and afterwards he will be released. When he gets to it he instantly enjoys the first day. They give him more luxuries than prison did. All he has to do is watch films and take a needle each time. However when they inject the needle and make him watch the violent films, he feels sick to his stomach. The films are so extremely violent he wonders whether they are taken with the consent of the people or not. He can't stand to watch them, a complete change from his violent self.
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The only change from the first blog post is that Alex and his droogs get increasingly more violent. They met and fought another gang and then pillaged a writers house and raped his wife repeatedly. They left after Dim shit on the floor. An interesting note from this part of the book is when they rip up what the writer was writing, titled A Clockwork Orange. I'm not sure what that means exactly but it's kinda meta. Because of this it reminded me of this show called Chowder, which is solely based around it being meta comedy. It always brings up the fact that it's made by writers and doesn't exist on it's own. I think that you could compare the life of a regular citizen to the life of someone in the United States if that person lived in a city where violence is prevalent.
The Dystopian novel I chose to read is called A Clockwork Orange. This book was written in 1962 by Anthony Burgess. This book takes place in a not so distant future (from that time) in a town in England. The future envisioned in this book is probably well before the present now. It centers around a teen named Alex and his droogs, or friends. He and his friends are "ultaviolent" and make trouble whenever they can. They drink milk laced with drugs at bars and then go off on violent raids in the town. Their terminology is heavily influenced by Russian slang and the society seems like a mix between capitalistic America and a communist state.
I've read other dystopian books before and they all share similar aspects such as being placed in the near future. I like this one however because it has a different vibe while you read it. The slang takes a little more thought to understand what things mean but it helps to immerse you more into the book. Things such as "ulta-violence" in the place of the word rape, and "horrorshow" in the place of the word good make the book all the more negative in tone. |
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