A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess This novel is short–only being about 180 pages–but looks may deceive you, or in other words don’t judge a book buy its cover or its thickness. A Clockwork Orange is actually 360 pages because you have to read between the lines. You may think that the story’s theme is that the future will be filled with horrible decadent violence (that is what I first thought), but if …showed first 75 words of 1250 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1250 total…about the book is the controversial question brought up and trying to solve it myself. I cannot think of any dislikes about the book, but I unlike Anthony Burgess, I think that there should be a solution to. You may ask what was between the lines and now you get your answer: Anthony Burgess explains how violence is not a solution to violence (violence makes violence), and that is the theme of A Clockwork Orange.