Week 12 Response

Jack London's novel "The Iron Heel" was an interesting read. From
what i took of the text was ideologies being expressed among characters
and how they clashed. There is a big divide among the poor and the rich,
the laborer and the market, and the capitalistic industries. I was
extremely surprised when I found out at what period the novel was
published, 1908. The novel seemed to predict or foresaw battles and
ideologies being played against a 20th Century society for Russia in
1910's to Cuba in the 1960's. The novel also expressed much violence and
confrontations that seemed to be due or die which i thought was very
interesting. The most profound aspect of the novel for me was the
general strike that was participated by many countries to forestall the
capitalist market in order to prove a socialist point.