As I have said before, this is a really strange book! I’m at the end of the first part. The last two chapters from this part leave me thinking, and connecting the events to my life, not that I have ever done anything that Alex and his droogs have done, but, I can relate to certain emotions and moments. By now, nothing that Alex does shocks me, so breaking into an elderly woman’s house was not the most shocking moment for me. Honestly, when Alex is being betrayed by his friends, and attacked by cats, I felt like everything came together; I think everyone can relate to being scratched by a cat; I have two cats, both whom like to attack and scratch and bite! While reading this I could feel the pain Alex must have been feeling. And the fact that simultaneously his friends were betraying  him reminds me of a cat. It doesn’t matter how nice I am to my cats, how much I play with them, how much I feed them, nothing matters, if they get angry they will open me up like a can! This reminded me of the droogs, it didn’t matter to them that Alex was their friend, they left him anyway. Another detail that stuck out in my mind was the fact that while Alex sat in jail, he thought of Beethoven’s 9^th, “And then there rose like the sun Ludwig van himself with thundery litso and caravat and wild windy coloss, and then I heard the Ninth…” I know that piece very well, and it would not be the first thing that would come to my mind if I was in jail. It’s almost happy, and playful, I can imagine what was going through his head while he thought of this. The contrast of the symphony and the situation creates a dynamic scene, I can picture it as a musical, the loud dramatic powerful parts of the song being the bad things he has done, and the happy rejoicing parts being the moments when he moves on and thinks about his actions. I love the fact that every time Alex is doing something wrong, he connects it to music in some way, I think that ultimately he knows that what he is doing is wrong, and if he can focus his attention on music, he can forget what he is doing, it was clever of the author to chose that to be his characters way of coping.