IndependentNovel1AClockworkOrange

=__**Part 1: Chapters 1-7** __=

**Chapter 1 **
A group of 4 young kids (around age 15), are the main characters. Their names are Pete, Georgie, Dim, and the narrator is Alex. They speak in a language called nadsat which is mostly slang. They go out at night with money on them and go to the milkbar where they often hang out. At the milkbar, people go there & drink milk that is laced with stimulants. While there, Alex and his friends enjoy a few drinks and look around at other people lost in a different world until they find something to do. Alex also tells us about girls around there and how they wear the names of their sexual partners on their clothes. Later on that night, they go around the streets and corrupt the town. They pick on, and by pick on I mean abuse, random people that are walking by or even in their own homes. They also robbed a store for their money as well. They beat up the shopkeeper and his wife. When they finished they returned back to the milkbar. When police showed up and questioned the gang where they've been, a group of women took their side and told the police they were there the whole night. The terrible fact about what the boys do is that they didn't leave one person bloodless. A lot of blood is the result of an unfortunate crosspath with Alex and his gang.

**Chapter 2**
After leaving the milkbar again the same night they see a man that's in the world of stimulants. They see him and start beating him for no reason. The man detests how there is no respect for adults and he says how old people can't live innocently in the world anymore because the young will always prey on them. The man then tells them that their hits mean nothing and he'd rather die. So the gang took that as an opportunity to keep beating him until he threw up blood. The gang kept walking and passed another gang with a girl that they were planning to rape. The other gang's leader was a kid named BillyBoy and him & Alex don't get along. The 2 gangs start fighting and scatter when they heard police sirens. They walk away and Alex's gang decide to get a car. They steal one and go out to the woods to break into a house and rape the girls in it. Alex approaches the house and knocks on the door. When the lady answers, Alex puts on a smooth voice & asks to use her phone because his friend is sick. She was hesitant so Alex unchained the door and went in himself. Inside, the lady and her husband who is a writer, are standing there demanding the gang to get out of their house. They don't pay attention to the couple and they pick up what the writer was typing and it was titled "A Clockwork Orange." They ripped it up and raped his wife, and left.

**Chapter 3**
The gang pushes their car into a river & take a train to town. Tearing it up the whole way home. They go back to the milkbar and more people are there. A drunk woman starts singing a song from an opera that Alex knew of and Dim clowned her. Alex got mad from that and wacked Dim in the mouth. Dim was confused at first and him and Alex were about to fight but Alex was trying to explain that he's the leader and he has to let his "droogs" know that. After that there was no argument and the gang agreed to go home and go to bed. Before Alex goes to sleep he listens to some of his classical music.

**Chapter 4**
Alex woke up the next morning not wanting to go to school. His mom tried to make him but he said he had a headache. Both Alex's mom and dad are employed so they leave to go to work & leave Alex at home alone. Alex stays home from school & fell asleep. He dreamt about his gang with Dim as the leader. Dim was whipping Alex repeatedly while he pleads & tries to run away. Alex wakes up to the doorbell ringing & it's his adviser. As they're talking he tells Alex to stay out of trouble and Alex claims to be innocent. After his adviser leaves, he eats and goes to the store to pick up a record of Beethoven. As he's looking he sees 2 younger girls than him that are also ditching school and invites them to his house. While there, they all get very drunk and Alex rapes them and the 2 girls end up leaving in a very nervous manner and Alex just falls asleep.

**Chapter 5**
Alex doesn't wake up until later that evening and he goes downstairs and tells his parents he's going to work. His parents are concerned about where he works and the danger that they're hearing about in the town. Alex assures them that they have nothing to worry about. Alex leaves and finds his gang waiting for him outside. They start acting weird and sarcastic toward Alex and a confrontation occurred where Georgie thought Alex was childish. Alex simply told him that someone has to be the leader. Georgie suggests that they're following new plans tonight, that he has a house that they could go to and tear up. Alex reluctantly goes along with it but was influenced by hearing Beethoven's song and slashes at Georgie. The 2 of them go at it with blades until Georgie got defeated and Dim stepped in. Dim got beat as well and Alex insists Pete try at him but he declined and was more concerned about Dim. They then leave the situation alone and talk about the house that they will soon go to tonight.

**Chapter 6**
The boys arrive at an older section of the city that is quieter. Alex was eager to show off his leadership to the gang so he again tried to trick the person at the front door saying his friend is sick. He got declined and he determinately had Dim boost him up into a window. He decided to do this one alone. He thought that by the time he opened the door for his gang, he would have already done the deeds that they came there for all by himself. Alex found himself in a house full of cats and was stumbling over their milk bowls a few times. Being unbalanced, the lady whose house it was begins beating Alex over the head and face and her cats attack him. Alex finds a statue, takes it and hits the lady over the head with it and knocks her unconscious. Alex heard police sirens and realized they were coming. His friends ditched him and ran off. The police come and kick and hit Alex and get a good laugh of it while Alex blames his friends for daring him to do this whole plot. The police then take Alex away in the cop car.

Next, Alex finds himself in a very bright room with a few police officers in there as well. Everything Alex would say, the police would just laugh at and beat him. One police beat him until he threw up which Alex seemed ashamed of and apologized for. His adviser then comes in and is disappointed in Alex. He told Alex he'll still defend him but he spit in Alex's mouth. Alex's reaction to that was saying, "Thank you sir, that was very kind of you sir." The police then ask Alex to confess his crimes. Alex says everything and tries to put the blame on his friends. Then the police take him to a cell with criminals and drunks and Alex has to immediately fight them off of him. Alex eventually falls asleep and when he's woken up, an officer takes him to an office where Alex is informed that the lady died.
 * Chapter 7**

=__Part 2__=

**Chapter 1**
Alex gets sentenced to 14 years in jail where they only recognize him by his jail number. His first years in the jail have been terrible as he would get beat by everybody. He finds out that Georgie died. After a while his jail time got to be normal and things started getting calmer. Alex started this job in jail to play music for the jail priest and they were friends with each other because the priest would give Alex privelliges and Alex would make him look good in front of the governor. Alex asked him about this one plan that gave them an early release from prison and the priest wasn't very enthused by it but Alex didn't care because he just wanted to be out of jail.

A new cellmate was in Alex's cell and he tried to take Alex's bed. Alex didn't want him too so him and his cellmates beat that man because Alex found him laying next to him that night. Once they beat him he still tries to fight so the cellmates try to teach him a lesson. Alex hits him the most and the hardest and when he gets knocked out they leave him there and go to sleep. When they wake up they found him dead and everyone puts the blame on Alex since he hit the hardest. The guards send Alex to his new treatment. His new treatment was to release him from jail quicker. Alex is sent to a new building where Alex is a lot more comfortable at. The doctor was telling him about the treatment but Alex was barely listening. Before Alex's first session he is injected with a shot and immediately feels weak.
 * Chapter 2 & 3**

Alex is too weak to walk so he arrives to another room in a wheelchair. In that room is huge tv screens and a chair in the middle. Alex starts feeling sick as the doctors strap him in the chair so he can't move and they clamp his eyes open so he can't shut them. They begin the movies and they're all showing brutal violence and Alex immediately feels sicker and wants to leave but they keep going movie after movie. All the while Alex is screaming the doctors are laughing at him. When he finishes the films the doctors are pleased with his progress and send him back to his room where he starts feeling better. A doctor comes in and explains to him what they're doing to him and that Alex's body need to get better.
 * Chapters 4 & 5**

The films happen day after day all consisting of the same and Alex consisting of the same emotions. In the films they start playing the classical music that Alex likes and he feels very hurt, sick and offended that they have to put all that terrible violence with that music that is a work of art in Alex's eyes. Alex tries to tell the doctors that he changed and his acts of violence are over but the doctors just laugh at him. Alex tries to avoid the treatment and even tried to knock himself unconscious before he had to watch the films but nothing worked. One day they didn't inject Alex but when he watched the films he still felt the same way. Alex tries to escape by knocking out the guards but the thought of violence makes him sick so he couldn't do nothing.
 * Chapter 6**

It is the last day of Alex's treatment and he has to go into the room one last time with a lot of doctors and important people there to watch him and the results of his treatment. Actors are also in the room to show that even though they put violence on Alex, he's too sick to do anything back to them. A huge discussion roars up about the treatment if it's actually helping or not. Alex is very confused and wants to know what is the fate of him and he gets ignored.
 * Chapter 7**

=__Part 3__=

Alex is out of jail and doesn't know where to go first. He goes to a cafe and reads the paper and sees himself all over it. Alex goes home excited, but when he gets there he sees a stranger with his parents and they tell Alex that he's living there now and none of Alex's things are there at all because they weren't expecting him back for 14 years. Alex gets frustrated with his parents and leaves. He's walking around aimlessly and he decides to listen to some music but when he tried to he felt sick again. He went to a milkbar to get some drugs and stayed there for a very long time. Alex decided that killing himself would be the best way to stop his suffering so he goes to the library to look up a painless way to do it. When he gets there, an old man recognizes him from a time when Alex and his gang beat him. So to get his revenge he, and some other older men ganged up on Alex and Alex was screaming to call the police.
 * Chapter 1 & 2**

The police arrive and Alex notices that it's Dim and Billyboy. They beat Alex and take him into the car and drive him out of town. They take him out of the car and beat him again and leave him there. When Alex gets up he starts walking more away from his town and sees a village that looked familiar. He walked up to this house that said "HOME" on it. Some man, F. Alexander, answered and when Alex went in he remembered that him and his gang sabatoged this house and that's why it looked familiar. Alex decided not to tell the man because the man was being so kind and homely to him. He notices that Alex was the boy in the paper and starts feeling so bad for him. Then Alex learned that his wife died because Alex and his gang raped her and put her into shock.
 * Chapter 3 &4**

Alex was very homey and he decided to look for A Clockwork Orange that the man had written before. When Alex finds it and reads it he barely understands but he questions F. Alexander's sanity. He tells Alex that he is a topic of politics and that the government is wrong and that he already wrote an article about him. Soon, many people come to that house to talk to and interview Alex. They tell Alex that they have an experiment for him and they take him to this house and tell him to wait. Alex falls asleep and is woken up by his classical music that he used to love. But listening to the music only made him feel sick and he hated it. He screamed but no one heard him and the music would not turn off. The only option that Alex could think about was committing suicide so he jumped out the window.
 * Chaper 5**

That jump didn't kill Alex but it severely hurt him and he went unconscious. He saw F. Alexander and the other people starring down at him and he realized that this was all for his look on politics. Next, he woke up in a hospital all bandaged up and Alex keeps falling asleep. he kept dreaming about the violence he used to do and it made him feel better and not sickk. Alex has been restored to his old self.
 * C hapter 6**

Just like in the beginning of the novel, he's dressed fashionably and has money with him. Him and his new gang are at a milkbar trying to figure out what to do with their night. Alex is still the leader but doesn't mind if one of his new gang members try to step in because all the violence has lately been boring to him. They still go around harrassing and beating people for no reason but it wasn't as grusome as before. Alex hasn't been feeling himself that night so he told his gang he'll meet up with them tomorrow. While walking by himself he runs into Pete who introduces his wife to Alex. Alex can't believe it and he notices that Pete has really grown up. They mingle for a while and when they separate Alex realizes that he's not young anymore and he wants his life to be normal like that.
 * Chapter 7**

=__Main Characters__=


 * Alex**- He is the narrator of the story and he is 15 years old. He is the leader of his violent gang which take over during the night time. Alex is one that loves classical music and he feels that the music and the violence he does goes very well together and they trigger each other. Alex is a huge protagonist and he commits a lot of evil. Though he's a bad seed people tend to like him and his gang let him be leader. He drinks and rapes girls. He also dresses according to the nadsat fashion and he speaks in the nadsat slang. Alex gets caught and goes to jail for a few years where he ended up being tortured and lost his love for music and instead, it being replaced by sickness. He tries to commit suicide one day which actually cures him.


 * Dim**- Part of Alex's gang who is the biggest, strongest, and the stupidest. He later becomes a police officer and turns against Alex.


 * Pete**- He was also a part of Alex's "droogs" and he was the most logical one to me. He was milder than the rest of them. At the end of the book he runs into Alex and shows that he is married and lives with his wife and is grown up.


 * Georgie**-The 4th member of Alex's gang, most ambitious and tried to be the leader over Alex. Georgie was in it for the money and he ended up dying.


 * Billyboy**- He is the leader of a gang that is Alex's rivals. He is very fat and fights with knives. He later becomes a police officer with Dim.

=__Motifs and Themes__= free will commitment government evil nadsat classical music religion

=**literary elements and rhetorical devices**= metaphore-A Clockwork Orange diction-nadsat slang symbols-milk, drugs, day vs night foreshadowing- F. Alexander