A Clockwork Orange

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A Clockwork Orange
This book was definitely the oddest book i have ever read in my life but i did enjoy its difference. It is a book that reminds me of another language because before you understand what they do, you have to understand how they talk. I want to give this novel a 71/2 out of 10 and i would recommend this to some one else, preferably a high schooler or older. It takes a mind with more experience with books to understand this kind of writing. I understood it by the end, but it was difficult in the beginning, i was lost.
Just one easy example of what it is like -
" 'Language, Language,' like smeckes a goloss, and then i got a like backhand tolchock with some ringy rooker or other full on the rot. I said:
'Bog murder you, You vonny stinking Bratchnies..."
With lines like these, i got confused many times. The entire book is like this, and the vocabulary is something I've never seen before. What i think the quote above says is ," hit his eyes, and got a backhand slap and got kicked and hit a lot of times. Then he basically said i hate you, and cursed him out". This is what i got out of it.
I think my favorite character in this is Alex, the is definitely not the best, but the main character and he has the most influence in the book.The way he changes is dramatic, but i think what he is before the change is interesting. He is worst than most criminals because he does kill people and he even rapes. More than once, but they only describe one, and the woman dies, which is tragic to the husband who is forced to watch. It is sick and demented. Here is the woman they raped and killed. He looks crazy and mean in all his pictures.

The authors purpose for writing this unusual novel is to be different. And it worked because the book became famous and many people have heard of it. I asked my dad and some of his friends about it and they knew, they have seen the movie. They almost disgusted too, because of all the nasty things the youth did.SO the author, Anthony Burgess did get his point across and spread. The intentions were to show how bad the youth is and what kind of violent acts they would do. It truly is crazy. So the youth is the worst age class when then book was originally written in 1962. It was a very long time ago, and the laws were very different. It was also in Britain, a whole different setting than America in 62. Its sad how he represents the youth thougyh, it looked to be like they were all bad and that they did really bad things, like rape and steal. They attitudes were bad too, they were often rude to women and didn't show any sign of respect to them or elders. As a matter a fact, before Alex's change, they had no respect for any body, not even theirselfs. So i think that Burgess might of seen or had something to do with the youth and their "terrible behavior".

So i enjoyed reading through this book, and i think that the type of style they use is interesting. I am going to go watch the movie now so i can get a better understanding of how they actually look. Another thing is i noticed is that there are some parts where i have no idea what is happening and i get completely lost. They start talking thick in their own language/style and i keep reading but i don't know how to interpret it. "Naughty little malchicks handy with cut-throat britvas--these must be kept under"pg167. So in this quote from a page closer to the end, i don't understand the scene. I think they are talking about knifes and the youth being bad. lot of stuff in here doesn't make scents. It's also kind of fun to though. Its unlike any books iv'e read because i always understand what they are doing because they use regular English that i use and they don't use weird words every 3rd word.

I would recommend this book to some one who likes different styles in books. This book has a unique personality, if that even makes sense. I want to give A clockwork Orange a good review and for a book written in the 60's that can still spark my interest is good. I think some day ill read this again, far away in time though.

I was also really interested when they got in the first fight in the beginning, it sounded like a good gang vs. gang fight and it had a good explanation on how it all went down and how they fought, but yet still confusing, because they said their own language, as i look at it. All the hooroshow malchicks in this book viddy on in and have fun old in out in out with random malchicks. That basically means that they rape random women. IT is still hard to understand g\because there is no set definition in what they are saying, so i can still be totally wrong wit what I'm saying.

Anthony Burgess, the author whose real name is actually John, was many thinks during his life time. An English poet, playwright er, composer, linguist, translator, and critic. All things he did very well in, and was known for them. Two of his most famous works are Dystopian and a Clockwork Orange. He wasn't super proud of it though. In 1971 it was made into a film, a clockwork Orange, He made many other books too, and some More became movies too, but none as successful as a clockwork orange.He was a famous man, and i think i might continue on reading some more of his books if i can find them.

A clockwerk orange part 3

A clockwerk Orange

The last blog for this book. I did enjoy this odd and twisted book more than my other books. This really surprised me, after i understood ho they talk and how wierd they act, i got into it. This is so different than today in america though. The way they lived then was both simuler and different from today but much more different. The way all the horrorshow malchicks talk and viddy to each other is interesting.

This novel written by Anthony Burgess had a big twist in the end i was not at all expecting. I though Alex,, the leader of the Droogs was going to stay how he was, but now he vomits if he even thinks about being mean. He physically can't. The man who he had beaten and raped ending up helping him untill he realisted who he was, and tortured him till he jumped out the window. He put i\him in a regular room in the attic and lockedd the doors. Then he turned up some beetoven which alex can not stand. It drives him crazy, littarlly and he cant bear it. So to end his ear pain, he jumps out the window

I like this part acually, because the man whos wife was raped and killed got some revenge form his wheel chair. He got to see the man he hate most on earth feel pain, not the same kind, but phsical pain. ANd now even alexs old droogs hate him," Then they gave me one final tolchock on the listo each and i fell over and just lied there on the grass". pg. 169. So his friends fronm the past became police officers and they beat hinm up for how they were traeted when he was their leader. They left him thee in rthe forest and it was getting dark and was about to rain soon. They hated him and he was getting what he deserved.

Jeremey and china

wtf is up
Okay, so I was reading a crazy story about a mans acts of violence in China, and it astonished me, and left me feeling bad. In china, there has been 5 acts upon little chidren in schools where a man with a knife or some kind of weapon, not a gun though, kills them. It is almost the worst thing a man can do, Kill the future, they honestly don't understand. SO this time, a man killed seven children and two adults in a school. He used a meat clever. This reminds me of horror storys. The kids probably think that this is a horror story. After the articul was a sub-section that was talkinfg about how 17 percent of china's population is mentally ill, and out of that only 5 percent of people get medicine for it. That is a huge amount and needs to be fixed. I dont know how, but if it leads to stuff like this, it really can't be aloud.

A man named Jeremy McGrath a Supercross legend finds himself to be the best of the best. He has won Seven 250 Supercross championships, two 125's, one outdoor, and two FIM World Supercross championships. I have a Honda CR250, and that is what he used to race, its a great bike. He has dominated all of Motorcross and is a legend.
Jeremy McGrath is an unlikely champion who became a legend in Supercross. . Wining 12 major championships is not the easiest thing ever. Having almost 3 perfect seasons is even harder. But Jeremy McGrath has accomplished almost all of these. He wants us to understand that the life of a professional rider is not all it is worked up to be, but there are good days then there are bad days and it takes a lot to get to the top. Ive watched alot of his interviews on youtube, and other dvds i have.
He was a young kid who didn't have a factory ride was from California and had trouble buying a bike. But he rode like a champion, practiced like a champion, and soon found himself rising to the top where he would become a legend in Motorcross. He is the one that brought Motorcross to the level that we see it at today.
Jeremy McGrath was born in 1971 and had grown up in California most for of his life, living a normal childhood, but riding dirt bikes. He had one sister a mother and a dad named Jack. As he was young he had gotten into BMX racing. He would come home from school everyday and just ride his bicycle around the yard. His dad noticed one day that he was riding his bike pretty aggressively and decided to get him his first bike. The bike had been sitting around Jacks shop for quite a while. So at age 6 Jack surprised him with a dirt bike. He would stay out and ride figure eight's in their backyard all day. But after a while the mini bike had gotten old and as soon as age 11 rolled around and he found himself racing his first BMX race. He continued racing BMX for most of his childhood. He had a couple used dirt bikes here and there but as he got better he upgraded. Ive always followed him, and i saw in in soem arenacross at the coliseum, and pac bell park.

Quick Write

So after watching this funny video on social classes and youth groups in America, i decided i would go try and find this again, but louder.lol I understood what they were doing, but i couldn't really hear what they were talking about.They seem to be totally different from now. They tend to act kind of like now-a-days though too. It is confusing to explain, but how they hang out is smiler and different. They still talk and hang out with both genders like now. They were cool for there time, and can be compared to the cool kids now.

Some of the rules they have are different from now and some are the same. If you or anyone basically breaks the rules, the social rules, it can be social suicide. I like that line. Social suicide, because it makes sense and can be true, but not literally. For example, if they say something that is really "Out of Pocket", new term i have heard a few times now, then they will get punished by the others by getting ridiculed.

They also have nice girls and boys and what separates them is different from now. But some of the same rules apply. If a nice girl gets pregnant, she is no longer a nice girl, true for both generations. Being pregnant at a very Young age is bad, but the older nice girls can be pregnant, and it wouldn't be bad. Because that's a miracle, and older people accept that, and they are old enough to deal with it on good and beneficial ways. But nice boys, its very different than nice girls, because guys can do more, a nice guy doesn't smoke anything or drink and gets good grades and has respect for there elders. But a bad guy gets in trouble and is the opposite of a nice guy, but there behavior towards others can still be good.

A Clockwerk orange

A clockwerk Orange

This book is still pretty trippy and shows how the youth in England, i think, mess stuff up. But there is a lot of parts I'm not understanding though. For example,:" P.R. Deltoid did something i never thought any man like him who was supposed to turn us baddiwads into a real horrorshow malchicks would do, especially with all the rozzes around". pg.77. Okay, so first off he uses many different terms for words in here. They say malchicks a lot, i think it is what they call each other, then horrorshow, another term used alot meaning perhaps bad, or dangerous.I am pretty sure that rozzes mean police.

So Alex, the head of the droogs is the bad ass of the four, He gets them in and out of trouble but when they start to doubt him, he needs to show his power. So he does this by taking them for a walk along side a waterway and he hits one in the privates, pushes two i n the water and shanks one that was in the water to show that they need to follow his directions. This act of violence only makes them angry, so then they set up a job to rob a ladies house. Alex breaks in, kills her and his so-called droogs call the police before he exits the house, so they are there when he gets outside. The part where he kills the old cat-lover is very gruesome and only for people who can take seeing it. So this is it for Alex. They put him in the slammer and he has many years to go through. But they also do testing on him, a lot of testing that makes him go crazy. They permanently open his eyes, make him watch people getting beat up for a long long time, and play a Beethoven song the whole time. They do this because whenever he is gonna do something bad, he wants to throw up. It stops him from wrong doing. I think this is almost too crazy, but then again, so is the book.

A Clockwerk Orange

A Clockwerk Orange

This is definetely the strangest book i have ever read. I have read through part one and i don't understand a lot of this book. I do kind of get what they are doing, and it seems like this are some sick youths. They are young and they stay in trouble a lot. They raped some one, and it was a graphic thing to read. I saw one of those top ten or something scary movie lists on mtv, and this movie was on it. Years ago i saw a scene where they went in to the house of the man and woman who they raped. It was sad yet very intence when i watched it, and that is the reason i picked this book.

The poeple who are in this speak their own language of old english slang plus english. Here is an example of how they talk, "But old Dim, as soon as he'd slooshied this dollop of song like a lomtick of redhot meat plonked on your plate, let off one of his vulgarities, which in the case was a liptrump followed by a howl followed by two fingers pronging twice at the air followed by a clowny guffaw." pg. 32. This is a very confusing line i don't comnpletely understand. I think it means=Dim was singing loudly while cuzing and dancing.It is very hard to understand what they are talking about. One word they use a lot is malchicks. But i am not sure what this means because they use it for many things. I think it has some thing to do with what they call their selfs. But they seem to use it in alot of different contexts.At the beginning of this novel, i felt lost and confused, and i didn't understand any thing.But after i read more, i started to understand, and get what they weree doing, They get it a lot of fights. They were fighting some other malchicks and the police came so they cut out. I think that this is a cool book to have read, I am going to watch the movie after this so i can see what they were doing for the parts where i got confused. Also, another wood they use, starting on the first page is droogs. I thing this is cool, It basically means friends. i like this book so far.

Iron man and a terrorist

I heard about a man who tryed to blow up time square in New York by parking his suv in an intersection with all sorts of different exsplosive things inside. Then i read a article about what really happened and i was slightly shocked and surprised by how dumb this man truly is. Primarly ignorant and full of hate is what this man is.
So apparently he had gone to a fire works store and bought m-88's, im not sure how many but the man who runs the store said they are weak. Besides fireworks, the car has gas in it which is very explosive. And he is said to have some kind of propane and gasoline thing in the back of his suv.After seeing some pictures, his suv looks worst because of the 3 20 gallon propane tanks. Propane is also very expolsive, so this might of been worst than i first thought. This man was caught all on video survalience, so he is screwed now. He even made it to the federal-no fly list. He can not fly legally on a plane, i think only in america though. He was going to Dubai and got caught after walking on the plane . I know that once he got caught, and now when he is looking back, he knows his life is over now.

Today i saw Ion Man two and i really enjoyed it. I really liked the first movie, and this one was just as good, if not better. I saw it in Imax which just makes it better. This movie was suppose to make box office numbers, and i heard it made 7.5 million dollars on a thursaday night. The main enemy in this movie was Ivan Vanko, a russian physicts. He is a genius and his father was partners with Tony Starks father. He was able to make a arc reactor to power his weapon thing. It is like some kind of poweful string attached to his arms. They made this charactor look very scummy and bad. He was almost like and evil scientist, and competing with stark and the iron man suit. Tony Stark went through alot of things through this movie. My thing that kind of surprised me is that he got wasted at his own party and was wearing the suit. WHen this happenes, he uses his power shooter thing and ruines a lot of his house. I guess he is so rich that he doesn't care about his house that much. After that, his friend puts on a another suit and they mess stuff up. The house gets ruined after the fighting. There was a twist in this movie, but it wasn't super big. I would definetely recommend this to pretty much anyone of any age. I saw all sorts of people in the theatre. I went with my family and some family friends to it, and every body enjoyed it. I am definetely going to watch this movie again, and i think my dad will buy it because he is really in to iron man.