Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Make up: ALL THE CLOCKS AND ORANGES


So my independent reading book, I love it, and I don’t at the same time. Like, I love the idea of the story and the plot, it’s a really good idea. But I hate the main character Alex more than anything in the beginning when he goes around beating, killing, and rapping people. I mean… come one, who wouldn’t hate him? The only point in the story that I actually had any form of an emotional attachment to Alex’s character was after the treatment that the government gave him to make him less violent. I started off happy that he couldn’t be violent thinking that maybe his life would turn around and we’d start to see Alex become a good person and that he would be reprimanded for his earlier actions. ( does reprimanded seem like the right word choice?) but nooooooooo, first he just had to be so defenseless and pathetic that EVERY ONE from his past had to beat the snot out of him. I felt so so so soooo bad for him when dim and bullyboy beat him up. And when he returned to Mr. Alexander’s cottage? Oh my goodness I thought that would be the end of Alex. But the thing I dis-liked most about this book was the fact that Mr. Alexander drove Alex to attempt to commit suicide for revenge (jerk), and the fact that everyone in the story was just so casual about the fact that alex’s treatment had failed and they just switched him back to his old normal violent self and sent him back out into society like I was normal. 

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