Post 6

"A Clockwork Orange"

The ending of the book was quite refreshing to me. It was a good kind of ending, one with a hope of change for the future of Alex. He wanted to grow up and have a child, a son. He realized that all of the violence now seemed "kid stuff." The book ended with a glimmer of a new Alex. He says, "Yes yes yes, brothers, my son. And now I felt this bolshy big hollow inside my plott, feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up." Alex is realizing that he is growing up and that he needs to change his actions. It brings the book to a hopeful ending, and ties everything together. After everything that he has been through he is now able to be at peace with and overcome it. And he say that he will tell his son about the some of the things that he went through, even if his son doesn't understand and may do some of the same things that he has done, he to will eventually grow up. Alex realizes that he needs to be patient as a father, but needs to grow to an adult first.

It makes you feel good inside knowing that he is growing. He has used his experiences to his advantage. He has been through a lot and it just takes time to overcome such obstacles, to grow to change. With the changes that Alex went through it shows that others too can overcome anything and become a better person. That no matter what you can grow and change and do something better with your life. A good ending to an interesting book.

Post 5

A Clockwork Orange, Where to start with this book. It is very interesting and different and kinda really creepy. You have Alex, a kid that finds pleasure and excitement in stealing, raping and beating people. I find something really wrong about that. I feel like there is something wrong with a kid that does that. I do appreciate that he changes at the end, but why did it take so long for him to move his life forward in a different direction. And what made him start all of these crimes? His parents seem really nice and they provide for him. They care about him. So how did all of this madness get started? What was the trigger for this kid? I don't think that we will ever know. Another think that just really confuses me is that he sees all of this destruction and devastation in classical music. It is sort of a muse of sorts for him.

Reading this book a lot of main and controversial points arose. Just like in class when we talked about whether we agreed or disagreed, we all had different view points and different thoughts on the subject. I think that that is something that the author wanted. He wanted there to be heated discussion about the book among people with far different opinions. I think a good book makes you think and dig deeper and i think that this book really accomplished this goal.