A clockwork orange
... doing some other violent things, they decide to go to a house of an old woman and rob her. Many things go wrong and Alex is forced to hit the woman knock-out. When he comes out of the house again, he hears the police sirens. Only Dim is still there. Dim stabs Alex down with a knife and runs away. Alex can't get away from the police now and gets arrested. He hears from them that the old woman is dead. Part two Alex is in Staja (Statejail) now. He's sentenced for killing the old woman and has to stay in jail for fourteen years. Over there he's trying to get earlier by telling the Governor all kinds of things about the other prisoners, about conspiracies and drug deals. He also asks something about Ludovico's Technique. Rumours are current about this new reclamation treatment. If it's true what he has heard, he certainly wants to be part of it. He shares a cell for three people with five other people. One day there comes another guy in their cell. This man tries to rape Alex. Together with his cell mates he hits the man down. The next morning the man is dead. Because of this Alex is called to the Governor. The Governor says that he's going to be part of Ludovico's Technique. From now on Alex gets an injection every morning. Because of this he can't walk anymore. He gets brought to a room every morning. Over there they show him all types of films about ultra-violence on the streets what he used to do himself, too and films about the cruelties that the nazi's have done. There's music with the films, too. He gets forced to look and listen. The result of these films and the injections is that if he thinks of violence or listens to music, he gets very sick. When he's totally brainwashed, he is let free by the minister of Inferior. Part three Now back in the free world, he decides to visit his mum and dad. They haven't heard that he's free again and they're very surprised. They think that he has escaped. There lives a new man in Alex's room, called Joe. His parents tell him that they can't kick Joe out of the house, so Alex has to leave. After that Alex decides to go to the library to check if he gets sick from reading the bible. In the library he comes across a man that he has robbed from his money and clothes after tearing up his books with his friends back in the old days. This man and the other people in the library want to lynch Alex. Alex wants to hit back, but he can't, because he gets sick from the violence. When the police has arrived, Alex sees that it are his old friend Dim and his old enemy Billy boy. They've become policemen, because of a plan of the government to make violent kids policemen, so that they can behave violent to other criminals. Alex gets taken by them to a forest outside the city and gets beaten up by them. Again he can't do anything against it, because of this sickness. When he comes to awareness again, he walks back to the city and knocks on the door of a house. He has been at this house before, back in the old days with his friends. They have raped and killed a woman in that house. He's let in by a man, called F Alexander, who takes care of him very good. He gets introduced to the friends of this man, who are very interested in him, because he can help to smash the government. In the mean time F.Alexander starts to realize who Alex is and what he has done. One morning when Alex wakes up, he hears very loud music, put on by F.Alexander as revenge. He gets sick again and attempts on suicide by jumping out of the window. He survives this fall and gets into the hospital. When he comes to awareness he's cured from the brainwash created by Ludovico's Technique. Setting: The story takes place at some future time in an England that has become a totalitarian state. Life is regimented and con- trolled by law, and people are expected to confon11 meekly. In the shabby metropolis, people live in numbered blocks of flats, each decorated with a huge wall-painting showing workers in a factory . Alex is one of a new generation of 'Modern Youth ' who rebel against the system by living a life of drugs, crime and violence. Characters and relationships: Alex is addicted to violence and the exercise of power over other people. Sometimes he and his friends attack and beat up people for money, but mostly just for the fun of it. Men are slashed and kicked and chained, and women raped, and the more the victims scream, plead and bleed, the better Alex likes it. The other great love of his life is music, which puts him into ecstasies. His love of music is closely allied to his love of violence; as he listens to music he imagines himself torturing people. Also, Alex is a dandy who is particular about his clothes and personal grooming. F. Alexander is another major character; his life crosses that of Alex and is in some ways a contrast, in others a parallel. Both Alex and Alexander are rebels against the growing power of the State. forever, Alexander is not a violent, impulsive criminal like Alex, Alexander is a gentle intellectual who writes books and articles, and organises political opposition to the Government. He thinks that he can use the 'conditioned' Alex in his propaganda as an example of what the State is doing to people. In the end the Government decides that the intellectual opposition is more dangerous than the criminal, so that Alexander is 'put away', whereas Alex is changed back into his old criminal self and al1owed to go free. Other Characters: Pete, a friend of Alex Dim, a friend of ...