This novel is short–only being about 180 pages–but looks may
             deceive you, or in other words don't judge a book buy its cover or its
             thickness. A Clockwork Orange is actually 360 pages because you
             have to read between the lines. You may think that the story's theme is
             that the future will be filled with horrible decadent violence (that is what
             I first thought), but if you read between the lines you will understand
             that this book is written for one main purpose, a purpose other than
             A Clockwork Orange was written in 1962, story about the future
             which was meant to be around 1995 to 2000 (a car used in the story
             called a 95' Durango). A boy about seventeen, Alex the narrator and
             main character living in London, rampages about with his "droogs"
             (friends) raping, stealing, beating and even killing people. Alex one day
             is caught for murder and jailed but two years later he is luckily freed
             twelve years before his sentence ends to take advantage of a new
             treatment for violent people like him that he volunteered for. He goes
             through the therapy and succeeds and returns back to civilization. He
             now becomes sick when he is about to commit a violent or sexual, but
             also when the Ninth Symphony by Beethoven plays (a minor defect
             from the treatment). Alex is driven to attempt suicide from this defect
             because he is locked within a chamber playing this song and does not
             accomplish his task. He is hospitalized and returns to his "ultra-violent"
             self while the inhumane treatment does not work because it does not
             even give people a choice about being violent.
             While Alex helps to present the theme, two different outcomes are
             formed. First, Alex goes through a great change from being "ultra-
             violent" to becoming Lamb-chop and then back to being "ultra-violent".
             Second, the theme defines the major conflict of the story. Although the
             co...