Throughout my reading of the first 70 pages of A Clockwork Orange I came across numerous words that were strange and forign to me. These words clutter the pages and at first made it seem as though the author was randomly inserting made up words to delibertly confuse the reader. As a read on though I start to decode Anthony Burgess unusual jargon and realizes that it set the tone for the entire book.
Words like “devotchkas”, “gulliver”, and “kleevy” confused me and destorted my reading so I could barely realize what was happening in the