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                My favorite book is A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. It is about a fifteen year old boy named Alex who is a member of a street gang in futuristic England. They would go out at night and steal, fight and drink. Eventually his gang turned on him and left him for the police after an unsuccessful home invasion.  He was then arrested and sentenced to 14 years in a harsh prison. After two years in jail, Alex was offered a chance to get out early. All he had to do was go through an experimental “reform treatment” and he would be set free. Not knowing what he had gotten himself into, he agreed to the terms and began the treatment. The purpose of the treatment was to strap him into a chair and force him to watch ultraviolent videos that were played with the music of Mozart and Beethoven for several hours each day until he became sick. Once the treatment was complete they would send him back into society and if he heard classical music or came into contact with anything violent, he would become violently sick and incapable of misbehaving, and that’s exactly what happened to him. Later in the book, Alex becomes homeless and finds himself living in the house of a man whose wife was murdered by him and his gang. The man soon found out who Alex was and locked him a room where he was exposed to classical music. The pain it made him feel caused him to jump from the window in an attempt to kill himself. He ended up surviving the fall and learned at the hospital that the people who gave him the “reform treatment” had undid it. For a short time Alex went back to his old ways, but realized that it was time to give it up and start a new life.

                What I liked about A Clockwork Orange was that it was suspenseful, adventurous and full of danger and violence. However, what I didn’t like about it was the slang the characters invented because it made the book difficult to read.