I'm Finished

In the last few pages of this novel, Alex stumbles upon the home of the writer he beat up 3 years ago. Severely injured, Alex asks for the writer to let him into the house to recover (the writer didn't know Alex beat up him up 3 years ago because Alex was wearing a mask in past). The writer, recognizing Alex from the newspapers uses him to be a spokesperson for an anti-government movement he writes for. Eventually, the writer (named F. Alexander) gives Alex an apartment flat to live in. Sounds really generous, right? Unfortunately, things aren't as nice as they seem- knowing the effects of the Ludovico technique, F. Alexander and his colleagues blast classical music in the room next to Alex's. Knowing that this will drive Alex mad with sickness - leading to Alex eventually wanting to kill himself, they keep on blasting the music. Alex jumps out the window in an ill-fated suicide attempt. F. Alexander and his associates wanted to make Alex commit suicide so that they could use him as an example of how the government ruins lives. The government, wanting to fight the bad publicity, somehow reverses the Ludovico technique leaving Alex cured. During his stay at the hospital, his parents also come to visit and offer him his room back. Leaving the hospital with quite a reversal of luck, Alex goes back to his life of crime with new droogs - but somehow he isn't enjoying it. He ditches his new droogs and goes into a cafe reminiscing about how he's leaving youth behind and also even thinkinga bout gettinga wife and starting a family. Ironically, he meets his old droog Pete and Pete's wife Georgina. Seeing how Pete's grown up makes Alex want to grow up even more. The novel ends with Alex going off into the street wondering how he's going to start his new life.

Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1962