Clockwork oragne summary
The story of A Clockwork Orange takes place in a wretched future of the author's invention, complete with a repressive government, violent street gangs, and a deadening mass culture. The narrator is the young protagonist, Alex, who tells his story in language peppered with "nadsat talk," the slang, derived mostly from Russian, used by the teenage hooligans of the novel. Alex, at the start of the novel, is a happy 15-year-old hoodlum who delights in rape, violence, thievery, and leading Dim, Pete, and Georgie, his little gang of teenage criminals. To amuse themselves, they break in one night to a cottage in the country, where they beat up the man they find inside and brutally rape his wife. The boys go on their way--this is an ordinary night for them--and back to their favorite hangout. At the bar, a woman breaks out into song, a little bit of opera. When Dim makes an obscene gesture toward her, Alex, a great lover of classical music, gives him a good punch. It seems to Dim and the others that autocratic little Alex is s
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Approximate Word count = 690
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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