SECOND BOOK CLOCKWORK ORANGE

For my second book I have chosen to read clockwork orange. It seemed like a class favorite a lot kids in the class read it or will eventually read it. I’m pretty into it I have read about half the book and I would like to share my feelings about it. Some parts are better then others but it has a lot of violence and what teenage boy doesn’t like violence. The main character in the story is Alex and he is also the narrator. I have some mixed feelings on him so far, The fifteen-year-old boy is the vicious leader of his gang of friends. He is extremely violent and crazy but he has a soft side to him too. He loves classical music and finds that violence and music provide him with similar kinds of aesthetic pleasure. The book has many similarities to the book we recently read 1984. They both are about dystopian societies but they go about it in different ways. In Clockwork Orange everyone has so many freedoms and can do basically what they want. They promote individualism but this obviously leads to a large amount of crime, which Alex and his friends take advantage of. In 1984 its all about the government have strict powers. The government has control of everything even including what you think. If someone is to break a rule or law they are horribly punished. Barely any people dare to take on the government in 1984 compared to the people who are not afraid to break the rules in Clockwork Orange. I’m extremely interested to find out what happens to Alex now he is arrested and what direction the book is going to go in. I wonder what’s going to happen to him in jail because he is use to being the top dog and in jail he won’t be. I wonder if he is going to try to escape or learn from his mistakes. I really enjoyed 1984 and should be interesting to make comparisons and similarities as I read between these books.