A Clockwork Orange | Part 3 Summary
In the third section, Alex becomes a victim. In his absence, Alex's parents have taken a boarder, Joe, so Alex is forced to the streets, where he encounters the people he victimized in the first section. He is being beaten by a group of old men in the Public Biblio (library), one of whom Alex and his gang had beaten before. Alex is then "rescued" by three policemen, two of whom turn out to be Billyboy and Dim. The government had recruited the two in its efforts to use society's criminal elements for its own repressive purposes. Billyboy and Dim take Alex out to the country, beat him, and...
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