Alex by Maria Faurholm https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv en-us 2017-11-09 07:42:00 UTC 2017-12-05 16:45:47 UTC hello@padlet.com Chapter 5 - page 41 https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205153821 'Here, dad, it's not much. It's what I earned last night.But perhaps for the odd peet of Scotchman in the snug somewhere for you and mum.'

  • He's taking care of his parents because they don't dare to walk on the street.
]]> 2017-11-09 07:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205153821 Chapter 2 - p. 22 https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205153995 “...and Dim, it was typical of old Dim, watered fire out and was going to dung on the carpet, there being plenty of paper, but I said no. ‘Out out out out,’ I howled.”
  • This shows that Alex has some respect for his own "art", and that he does not want Dim to deface it by defecating on it.
]]> 2017-11-09 07:44:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205153995 Alex akat15tkmoe https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154021
  • “‘There has to be a leader. Discipline there has to be, right?’ (...) ‘I’ I said ‘I have been in charge long now. We are all droogs, but somebody has to be in charge. Right? Right?’” (p. 26)
    • - He likes order and discipline
    - He knows he is the leader of the gang

    • “...and too much von of sweat on him, which was one thing I had against old Dim.”
    - He likes things orderly and clean

    • “And it was like, for a moment, O my brothers, some great bird had flown into the milkbar, and I felt all the little malenky hairs on my plott standing endwise and the shivers crawling up like slow malenky lizards and then down again.” (p. 25)
    - He loves music
    - Music makes him FEEL

    ]]>     2017-11-09 07:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154021     https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154023  P. 26:
    “‘There has to be a leader. Discipline there has to be. Right?’ None of them skazatted a word or nodded even.”
    - He thinks he is the leader but the gang does not agree
    - This shows that Alex is not a typical leader.

    P. 29
    “Pee and em in their bedroom next door had learnt now not to knock on the wall with complaints of what they called noise. I had taught them. Now they would take sleep-pills.” 
    - Shows his relation to the parents
    - They try to avoid conflifts with him

     
    ]]>     2017-11-09 07:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154023     Quotes: Hits Dim: “For being a bastard with no manners and not the dook of an idea how to yourself publicwise, O my brother” Wants/has dominance “I” I said, “have been in charge long now. We are all droogs, but somebody has to be in charge. Right? Right?” akat15tsebp https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154136

    ]]>     2017-11-09 07:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154136     Chapter 5 - page 46 https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154295 "And as we were going out, the old baboochkas said: We'll say nothing, lads. Been here al the time you have, boys.

    Alex and his droogs utilize the old ladies]]>     2017-11-09 07:46:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154295     Chapter 2 - p. 17 https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154662 “And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz - left two three, right two three - and carve left cheeky right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.”

    • He sees the beauty I the violence he commits, he almost becomes an "Artist of violence"

    ]]>     2017-11-09 07:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154662     Chapter 3 - p. 29 https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154810 “There were vecks and ptitsas, both young and starry, lying on the ground screaming for mercy, and I was smecking all over my rot and grinding my boot in their litsos. And there were devotchkas ripped and creeching against walls and I plunging like a shlaga into them and indeed when the music, which was one movement only, rose to the top of its highest tower, then, lying there on my bed with glazzies tight shut and rookers behind my gulliver, I broke and spattered and cried aaaaaaah with bliss. 
    • This violence is a sort of psychological obsession that takes form as an urge that lies parallel with normal urges such as sex.
    ]]>     2017-11-09 07:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154810     Chapter 2 - page 19 https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154999 "I said in a very refined manner of speech, a real gentleman's goloss: 'Pardon, madam, most sorry to disturb you, but my friend and me were out for a walk, and my friend has taken bad all of a sudden'(...)"]]> 2017-11-09 07:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205154999 Chapter 3 - p. 25 https://padlet.com/mafau/xxl59qyqz3uv/wish/205156233  “... Viddying Dim’s vulgarity, and I said: ‘Bastard. Filthy drooling mannerless bastard.”  - Then hits him

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