a Clockwork orange third response

The last third of A Clockwork Orange is probably my favorite. In the last third of the book Alex is released into everyday life, for better or for worse. When he is released his first destination is his parents house. His arrival is a surprise to his parents who thought he was going to be in jail for quite a few more years. In his house there is an unusual man sitting at the table. It is explained to Alex that in order to help pay the bills they rented out his old room, his parents say that they cannot just kick the man out of the house. Alex then guilt trips his parents, saying that they don’t love him and such, and leaves to find his own way.
Of course his first stop is the Korova milk bar. He drinks some milk plus and many a psychedelic apparition flit through his mind. When he leaves he is confronted by two police officers, none other than his old droog, Dim, and his old rival, Billy boy. The two recognize him and decide to accost him; they take him out to the country and beat him senseless. Alex then makes haste to a nearby house to seek refuge; this house is none other than the house he visited in the beginning of the book when he raped and beat the wife of the writer who lived inside. Because he was wearing a mask the writer doesn’t recognize him, but he does recognize him from the papers, for his treatment. He takes Alex in and explains to him the organization who he is a part of who is utterly opposed to governmental control, including the Ludovico technique that was used on Alex. the members of this group get Alex a hotel room to stay in, but the writer seems to suspect that it was Alex that raped and beat his wife, who later died from her injuries. When Alex wakes in the morning he hears Beethoven music, which he used to love but because of the Ludovico Technique makes him feel pain as though he was doing someone harm. He realizes that he is locked in the hotel room with no way to escape. He decided that the writer must have recognized him and was playing the music to torture him. He is in such utter pain that the only way to escape it that he sees is to kill himself by jumping out the window. He jumps but is not high enough to die from the fall.
When he wakes up he is in a hospital with many a guest around him. One of the guests is the minister of the interior, who decided to use to Ludovico technique on Alex. he apologizes to Alex profusely and explains to him that he is cured, and will no longer feel pain when hurting people or listening to classical music.
The twenty first chapter, which was left out of the original American publication and the movie version, is probably the most interesting of the book. He is out and about with his new droogs, causing general mayhem as per usual, except this time Alex feels slightly dejected, a little out of it. He decides to walk around on his own and think about things. He goes into a coffee and tea shop to get some tea and sees a very beautiful woman in a stall sitting with a man. He describes the woman as the sort you might want to have a relationship with and not just rape, like most of the women he has had. When the man who is sitting with the girl turns his head Alex realizes that it is Pete, his old droog. He goes and talks to pete and finds out the he is married to this woman and has a regular job. At this point Alex realizes that the less destructive feeling he has been having toward people is just a result of growing up, therefor keeping Alex from being a clockwork orange.
The interesting part about this section of the book is that the reader feels as if Alex has been punished enough and yet he is only punished more in this section of the book, thus making the reader feel sorry for him even more. Anthony Burgess, the writer of this fine book, describes a clockwork orange as something that looks alive and juicy from the outside, like an orange, but behaves like clockwork, to be wound up by god or the devil. in other words a person who doesn’t have choice and is forced to always perform good or evil. Without the last chapter Alex is a clockwork orange, always performing evil and never changing, but with the last chapter he becomes human, with the ability to change. Anthony Burgess has written a culturally relevant book that is one that says something about a very core aspect of humanity, and a warning that only bad things can happen if you take that choice away from people.