not just any ordinary harassing episode but more of a complete and utter pounding. They beat the defenseless man until he is all bloody and disoriented. They then send him on his way, half naked and crawling home, later that night they saw an old drunken man sitting on the ground and they decided to beat him until he was delirious. This is a very typical action of Alex and his friends on any given night. The next night Alex and his friends stole a car and took it for a joyride when they decided to break into a cabin on desolate road. When they got in they started roughing up the owners and trashing the place. When one of the droogs (friends) noticed a typewriter with a story lying next to it called "A Clockwork Orange", the boys thought it was an odd title and Alex started to really beat the man, he beat him until he was bloody and lifeless. This time one of his friends thought that he had gone too far and betrays him by telling the police. Alex is convicted of murder and sentenced to fourteen years in prison at the age of only fifteen years old. He goes to jail, still goes about his violent ways, and eventually kills another prisoner. After this he is chosen as a subject for a new experimental treatment called, Ludvico's Technique, it is supposed to cure him of his ultra-violent ways. He is transferred to a new building specifically made for this new treatment. Here he is basically conditioned through many injections and he is made to watch films of rape and violence. The mixture of these images and the drug cause him to associate feelings of panic and nausea with violence. Alex is released after two weeks in this new program, he is deemed cured and released back into the general public after only 2 years of incarceration. After a few encounters with past victims of his he finds himself at the home of a writer; who had also been a victim of Alex's, but does not recognize him, who is strongly opposed to the new treatment the gove...
