Tom Clancy's The Hunt For Red October

“As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work” (Clancy 24) those were the words that conveyed a feeling of distortion and separation from government that millions of people felt during the Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October. This book was based on events that took place during the cold war and used many very real aspects that are still live and beating in today’s world. The novel starts off with the launch of the Russia's new submarine The Red October, which used a device called a caterpillar, which a new propulsion device that used nuclear energy to silently propel itself past enemy blockades. The sub was led by Marko Alexandrovich Ramius who had a deep hatred for inner party members, and from the beginning of his journey …show more content…
was an American novelist and video game designer best known for his fictional espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. He worked as a stockbroker until 1984 when he published his first book The Hunt for Red October. The novel immediately became a hit and even president Ronald Reagan openly praised it. His popular and realistic military novels earned him liking within the U.S Military. He dined with many generals and even presidents who gave him tours and access to military equipment like aircrafts, submarines and even warships. His political stance sides strongly on the republican side but it is nearly undetectable in his early writing, however he dedicated some of his later books to figures of the military and executive branch. After writing his first novel he would spend the next 30 years writing more and more books up to his death on October 1, 2013. Tom Clancy wrote a total of 20 novels and sold over 100 million copies, he also sold 76 million copies of Clancy brand video …show more content…
But why? Was it because all the underlying issues that led to ramius defecting, or is it just an exciting book that keeps you on the edge of a cliffhanger? Well for me it was a mix of both. So I dove deep into the novel and found some of the hidden themes that laid silent in the Western hemisphere but were embossed during and after the cold war in Eastern Europe. These themes of dominance, control and haves and havenots dominated the minds of people across the Soviet Union which is where I decided to focus my research. The concept of haves and havenots today is hard to grasp since we like to think that we are working to close the gap and to stop relying on status as a way to decide how we should treat people. After finding and briefly looking over history relating to the time of my novel I immediately became curious as to why status is so important and how it affects people's lives. This led me to my synthetic question: how does formal status and informal status affect interpersonal relationships? This is a rather broad topic and it has many branches but it's important to learn how social status affects