A CLOCKWORK ORANGE POST 3

"So we scattered out into the big winter nochy and walked down Marghanite Boulevard and then turned into Boothby Avenue, and there we found what we were pretty well looking for, a malenky jest to start off the evening with. There was a doddery starry schoolmaster type veck, glasses on and his rot open to the cold notchy air. He had books under his arm and a crappy umbrella and was coming round the corner from the Public Biblio., which not many lewdies used those days. You never really saw many of the older bourgeois type out after nightfall those days, what with theh shortage of police and we fine young malchickiwicks about, and this prof type chelloveck was the only one walking in the whole of the street. So we googlied up to him very polite, and I said: 'Pardon me, brother."

This scenario is reminiscent of a brawl between school bullies and a smaller, more studious boy. The author uses diction and imagery to describe the way the old book-bearing man looks. "schoolmaster" "glasses" and "rot open to the cold nochy air" renders an image of a nerdy-looking man lugging his books through the cold breathing awkwardly through his mouth. "Public Biblio" is made up slang to describe a public library, but "biblio" is recognizably derived from other languages (ex: biblioteca = library in italian) .Despite the fact that in the book the "schoolmaster type veck" is much older than Alex and his friends, they still knock the books from under him, assault him and take his money. Alex is first nice to him and tells him how it's nice to see someone reading-a genuine thought- but this respect does not inhibit him from assaulting the old man and ripping apart these valued books. This behavior is used to further characterize Alex, and can also be used as a metaphor for the devaluement of intelligence and literature by the new generation of youth, who find enjoyment not in books but in shamelessly hurting those who carry them and ripping them up