A Clockwork Orange - Part 1, Chapter 2 Summary


At the beginning of the second chapter, we see Alex and his droogs, leaving Duke New York. They're heading down the street and see a drunken man singing, and they decide to to beat him. Drunk, though beaten, refuses to stop singing, so Dim punches him to close her mouth. The man then begins to scream, how terrible the world and boys should have just finish him off. Alex, his curiosity to listen to him a little Before the boys beat him until he spits blood.



The boys then travel to meet billyboy and his droogs close power plant. Alex describes billyboy and his friends, "old-school" gang. each other in the eye, is not quite sure what they should do with each other, such as billyboy and his droogs is a woman, that they are about to rape. Billyboy throw the woman to the side and the two groups pull out knives and start a fight. Alex and his droogs begin the upper hand, even if the Dim becoming very bloody, but as soon as they hear the sirens approaching and all the boys break up.



Alex and his droogs to escape down the alley, where the Dim notice the moon, and will be distracted. Alex makes some sarcastic comments, and the boys begin to look for the car to steal, they close the movie theater. The boys take off their stolen Durango '95 and begins to terrorize the people along the manner. They scare people, and even run over something before they come to the village, ending up with a small cottage called "home." They decide that they have to pay the owners of a home visit.



Alex knocks on the door of the home and a woman who is responsible, that he need to use the phone. When it does not work, then she tells him she is not phone, he tells her he needs water for his poor friend. Alex talks about the perfect, gentleman-like English, which enables her to let down her guard. As he turns to to get him some water, he reaches the door and unhooks the chain. Droogs storm and behold a man in writing and a wife. They begin to terrorize the man who writes Book the world's state of affairs, called "A Clockwork Orange." As a writer should be more upset, mainly Alex sarcastically reading the script Dim begins to beat the man, when Pete and Georgie are the kitchen, stuffing their the face of food. When Pete and Georgie return, Alex tells them to drop food and helps to keep the man down when he raped his wife. Each boy takes a turn to rape a woman, while others hold the husband.



When the boys have done a woman, they will continue to destroy the house. Just as the Dim is about to defecate carpet, Alex tells them it is time to leave, and they to drive back to the city.





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A Clockwork Orange - Part 1, Chapter 2 Analysis



In this chapter we will continue to see the senseless violence of the boys come to a head. continue to show a complete disregard for the effects of their violence to others, and rather enjoy the devastation they cause wherever they go. We begin to see that Alex sees the violence and harm to something beautiful and creative. He hears the rhythm of a woman's screams that go along with spaces Dim throwing a writer. Music, rhythm and poetry are wrapped around violence Alex. Ways, they are both just as beautiful as each other and to each other.



We will also continue to get an idea of ​​society and the lives of Alex oppression they live. We see the importance of Russia's influence The language used by Alex and his friends, as there are many references to the size of number of features of communist society. Television program, that many of the people are watching as the boys walk down the lane, are state-sponsored. Drunk talking about the state of the world and the way young people think of the people prisoners in their own homes. As discussed in the introduction Burgess novel boys work in the same way as the police in a communist society by making people are afraid to go home at night.


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