Entry 3

"I take it up now, and this is the real weepy and like tragic part of the story beginning, my brothers and old friends, in Staja (State Jail, that is) Number 84F." (85).

In my last entry I was left wondering what trouble Alex and his droogs would get into. The quote above pretty much answers that. I suppose he wouldn't have been punished so harshly (14 years in state prison) if he hadn't killed the old lady. I also find out that two years have passed since his little "mistake" and that Georgie has been killed in a robbery accident. Alex then starts talking about his life as a prison inmate and goes into details about how he rats out prisoners and their plots to escape to get a little favouritism from the administration there. I think this shows alot about Alex's character; no matter how rotten the criminal is, one should still be able to keep an honor code in my opinion.
Alex then goes on to explain the state of his crammed jailcell. Although there's supposed to be three to a cell, the state prison keeps six people in one tiny cell. It gets worse; Alex's cell gets a new prisoner making the final count seven. It seems like they're crammed in there like sardines or luggage rather than people. I think this shows a lot about the way the government is, and how harsh and uncaring it is in the book. Basically, i feel like the government is just saying "You've done wrong, you don't deserve to be treated like a human."

Page I left off on: 96
Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1962