Brendan Rodisch 2/23/10
“ The Hunt For Red October”
By Tom Clancy Pages 262-387
Total pages: 125

#18 What has surprised you in this book? Why?

What surprised me in this book was what happened to the Red October after the Americans got it. The Russians thought the Red October, which was originally their ship, was sunk. So all of the soviet naval forces in the area left except for the V.K. Konovalev. When the Red October went by, guarded by two American submarines that were escorting it safely to a naval base, the Konovalev realized it was the Red October.

So the Konovalev fires on the Red October, and the October deals with it in the most surprising way. It rams the Konovalev in the side, puncturing it’s hull and venting it to the ocean. The Konovalev sinks and the October moves on. That is what surprised me most in this book.

#20 I wonder why the author…

I wonder why the author put the Politovskiy in the book. In the book the Pilotovskiy is a submarine that is heading towards the American coast as fast as it can. It ends up having a reactor problem and sinks. One man survives and is interviewed. While this part of the story is sad, it’s significance to the story is hidden and not obvious.