The Hunt for Red October

In The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy portrays the character of Marko Ramius as one of the story’s two protagonists, with the other protagonist being the main character of Clancy’s series, Jack Ryan. This is not the last time Clancy ends up using this concept in his books. Later on in Red Rabbit (in terms of the storyline, Red Rabbit comes before The Hunt for Red October, but the latter was in fact written before Red Rabbit), he had Oleg Ivanovich Zaitzev fill the role of the second protagonist; hence, Ramius, Zaitzev, and their stories have many things in common. The characters themselves show remarkable similarities for men of such different backgrounds. Obviously, one must take into consideration their decision to defect; both stories’…

its factual identity, but the intense, next level possession of humankind’s self-evaluation and self-ability. The Hunt for Red October is one example of this possession, whereas the fierce relationship between the United States and The Soviet Union is conveyed directly. Circumstances like the Atlantic Dispute, Ambassador Relations, and Defections created an atmosphere in the book that continually propelled the power breadth of the…

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…

Red Cliff is a fantastic of action, adventure, drama, epic, war film. This movie is based on the Battle of Red Cliffs (AD 208–209), the events at the end of the Han dynasty, and immediately prior to the Three Kingdoms period in ancient China. There is Part I (2008) and Part II (2009) for Red Cliff which was directed by John Woo and acted by Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Zhao Wei, Hu Jun, Lin Chi-ling, Baasanjav Mijid, and . In China, the first part (146 minutes) of Red…

Clancy-fashion to be as historically accurate and plausible as possible. It begins in 1984 with the voyage of the Soviet Typhoon-class nuclear submarine, the Red October. This submarine has a brand-new revolutionary technological upgrade that renders it undetectable to sonar. Commanded by the wise, old submarine veteran, Captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery), the Red October heads to sea on what is supposed to be an exercise. Immediately, the political officer, who is in charge of overseeing the…

Shadow Warriors starts off on the seventh of October, 1985, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This is the day a large cruise ship was hijacked in the Mediterranean with Americans on board. Though, as the book proceeds, it goes all the way back to the Vietnam War in the 1950’s to the 1990’s while talking about how the Special Forces started from the small core units in the military. This book is most written from the view point of General Carl Stiner (Ret.), who helped write this book. He was very…

McCarthy’s Red Scare Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and everyone works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. It was a hated thing in America, and most people feared it. That being said, it was the cause of the Red Scare in America. America should not have trusted McCarthy with the issue of the Red Scare. The first reason that America should not have trusted McCarthy is…

have been a fan of Tom Clancy and Jack Ryan for a long time. I started with the video games, which led me to the movies and then some of the books. Being that involved you see it less as intuition and more of skill as Jack Ryan eventually becomes a successful president. However, my understanding has always been that Jack Ryan is essentially the Sherlock Holmes of the CIA, but Sherlock doesn’t use intuition that is Watson that deduces things, Sherlock is the one that uses induction the facts lead…

My animal's physical traits include copper-red and ivory fur. It's ears are pointed, broad, and facing forward; it has hair around its ears however none inside. This wolf’s teeth are small and widely spaced. Cainen teeth are 14 to 22mm long. Ethiopian Wolves can be compared to a North American coyote in appearance. Females tend to be smaller compared to males ,by about 20%, with both sexes having long slim legs for scavenging in the desert. Females are born with 8 mammae, yet only 6 function…

Scientific Mishap One late night in October, Dr. Bryn was closing up her lab and preparing to go hunt for dinner for her and her assistants-- Dr. Bob and Dr. Bobby. She looked out at the sky, it was as foggy as a steam room. They had no internet so she couldn’t check the weather, but she heard soft thunder claps a couple of miles away. She needed to hunt because they ran out of food that day. She grabbed her bow and machete and started walking out. Dr. Bobby was still calculating some things for…