Blog Post for Friday March 26

A Clockwork Orange is a very strange book, but yet I did like it! In the novel, Alex and his droogs, are out and about at night and end up causing all kinds a damage to people, places, and to themselves. As the story progresses, I almost got a feeling that something would change Alex and make him a nice person. Well, I was right. At the middle part of the novel, Alex gets caught and is thrown in jail. While he is in jail for a couple years, the new treatment comes out, which is to watch basically what you've done in the past, and then you will feel sick if you try to do it ever again. Alex watches all this videos or "films" and gets the sick when he watches them, which is a sure sign to the soctors, that he is getting better. So after watching these horrible films for a fortnight, he does get released out into the world again. When he gets out, he goes home, and finds out that his parents have basically took in John, a laborer, into thier home, almost as a replacement of Alex. Alex is quite furious, I can't balme him for that, I mean what parents would do that to thier son, but when he even thinks nasty things, he starts to get the sick feeling, like when he watched the films. He then leaves his house and goes out on the town. To make a long story short, he joins another gang, but doesn't do any of the violence part. Its almost like he feels like he's not worth anything to anyone since he left for jail, and his own parents didn't want him. He then one day sees Pete with a wife, and this makes Alex almost think t himself that maybe it is actually time, to turn into a good person, and settle down, and find out how to love instead of hate.

One thing that I thought was very ironic, was that after all the sick feelings he had while watching the horendous films, he actually went right out into public and did what he always did, by joining a gang. I think that it relates in today's world with people that get out of jail, are extremely likely to go back into jail for the same reasons they were in there previously for. It just hit me a certain way to think that yes jail is sometimes a curable notion for people, but yet some just go in, do their time, and then go right back out into the world and do it again. There needs to be a line drawn, people need to be put through theropy like Alex. Eventhough he did join a gang, he was not doing all the violence acts, like he was, which is a step in the right direction.