Summary of “ A Clockwork Orange “ The story of A Clockwork Orange takes place in a future that the author created, complete with a repressive government, violent street gangs, and a deadening mass culture. The narrator is Alex, who tells his story in language peppered with "nadsat talk," the slang, derived mostly from Russian, used by bad teenagers in the novel. Alex, at the start of the novel, is a happy 15-year-old hoodlum who delights in …showed first 75 words of 691 total…

…showed last 75 words of 691 total…does not kill Alex, and government psychologists reverse Ludovico's Technique on him while he is unconscious, so that, when he comes to, he is back to his old happy, violent self. He gets back to his old tricks for a while, with a new gang, but he's growing up and begins to get tired of his thug's life. At the end of the book, he starts thinking about settling down, marrying, and having a son.