... is human. Burgess's little Alex is a clockwork orange until he reaches maturity in the twenty- first chapter. Stanley Hyman, a literary critic, provided an afterward for the original American edition of A Clockwork Orange. In it he states that "Alex always was a clockwork orange, a machine for mechanical violence far below the level of choice...". One must remember that this after word was written for an ... edition in which the important twenty- first chapter was missing. In that chapter, Alex himself states: Youth must go, ah yes. But youth is only being ... published literature, his ...

• Word Count: 7286
• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: High School

... is human. Burgess's little Alex is a clockwork orange until he reaches maturity in the twenty- first chapter. Stanley Hyman, a literary critic, provided an afterward for the original American edition of A Clockwork Orange. In it he states that "Alex always was a clockwork orange, a machine for mechanical violence far below the level of choice...". One must remember that this after word was written for an ... edition in which the important twenty- first chapter was missing. In that chapter, Alex himself states: Youth must go, ah yes. But youth is only being ... published literature, his ...

• Word Count: 7283
• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: High School