Catch-22 Chunk #6

Now basically the novel ends with Yossarian  going to rome to tell Nately's whore he is dead.  Nately whore is crazy and almost kills Yossarian by stabbing him to death..  He had the choice to be grounded an go home but he would have to basically work for Colonel Cathcart and Korn.  Yossarian didn't want to betray his fellow men so he diceded to run away.  Many times Nately's whore is trying to kill Yossarian.

WOW!! Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 really reveals humorous, suspenseful, and mysterious conflicts that assist in showing the magnitude of  an actually Catch-22.  Heller takes us into a world were everything ends up in paradoxical situation.  Heller manipulates the texts sequence so the story is told from past to present, yet still not in chronological order.  Heller foreshadows the death of Swonden yet we never get to hear the whole story until the end of the novel. He uses this method so that we could finally understand why Yossarian acted they way he did.  I have come to find out while reading this novel that a catch 22 all in all is a paradox. Just one big contradiction.   All throughout the novel something had to be contradicted, there had to be a "catch".  

Question #6 What do you think the quote "The spirit gone, man is garbage"  means ?? How is it significant to the story?

Catch-22 Chunk #5

In Chunk 5 of Catch 22 we go deeper into the story of Dobbs and we find out that he doesn't want to kill colonel Cathcart anymore because he has all his 60 missions.  Also in this chapter Orr had repeatedly crashed his plane, the last time he crashes in the ocean and disappears.  In this chunk there is a lot of death, McWatt  crashed his plane into a mountain after accidentally killing Kid Sampson.  Colonel Cathcart was mad and yet again raised the missions to 65.  Another messed up part of this section was that Yossarian basically killed Doc Daneeka off.  Its was said that he was on the same flight as McWatt and the military started to send his wife money every month.  With Doc Daneeka being "dead" he really couldn't continue his practice.  He asked his wife to tell the military that he wasn't really dead but she moved away with the kids and didn't tell him where they went. Colonel Cathcart raised the missions to 70 because he was mad about the death of doc Daneeka.  There is so much going on in this section. this book is crazy.  Joseph Heller manipulated the storyline very well, and he successfully  accomplishes the way the tone and the tense effects how the conflicts and all the event are portrayed.

Question #5 What is the purpose behind Colonel Cathcart raising the missions? Someone dying should make you raised the missions.

Catch-22 Chunk #4

In Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 we finally get all cleared up about who Swonden is and what happened.  We find out that Dobbs had a plot to kill Colonel Cathcart but decided not to do it because he got to his 60 missions. Also in that chapter we go deep into Milo's business with the black market.  Yossarian and Orr find out that Milo's like the major of Palermo and at the top of a variety of things in other countries. We also find out Milo is selling his goods to the U.S and Germany.  The camp site even gets bombed because of Milos antics.  The novel then goes back in to the chaplains dilemma of not feeling welcome in the camp.  Joseph Heller's reveals his story in a past present order.  The significance of Swondens death is why Yossarian is so afraid of dying.  All this really happened before, it is like he gives you the present and is slowly going back into the past and if the pattern persists he will slowly venture back in to the present to show all the connections.  Heller uses this technique to create suspense and allows Heller to foreshadow a lot of different conflicts.

Question #4 This section makes me wonder about the past and present and leads me to Antoineice's question about the importance of past and present.  my question is: Do you think the way Heller wrote the novel, present to past to present, that it also is consistent with the Catch-22 theme?

Catch 22 Chunk #3 pgs 154-231

In Joseph Heller's Novel, Catch-22, chunk three starts off with chapter 16 where Yossarian meets a pretty girl named Luciana at a bar and falls in love with her. Once they part ways he tears up her number and throws it away. Later regretting it, he then found out that the colonel raised the number of missions to 60.  Yossarian got frustrated and went in to the hospital.  While in the hospital Yossarian has an epiphany that "There was a much lower death rate inside the hospital than outside the hospital, and a much healthier death rate.  Few people died unnecessarily".  Also in the hospital he meet a doctor who would try to help him out of the war but Yosarrian needs to still fly 55 missions.  The novel then ventures off into Colonel Cathcart's story. The Colonel wants to get higher and higher in rank and be noticed more so he decides that he wants to get the chaplain to pray for them before missions so that he could get in this magazine.  Once the chaplain leaves he has to deal with Colonel Korn.  Korn is suspicious of the plum tomato that Colonel Cathcart gave the chaplain.  The chaplain also finds out that the C.I.D is trying to accused him of the Washington Irving fiasco.  Colonel Cathcart becomes very preoccupied with Yossarian because he feels like Yossarian is the cause of a lot of the problems thats have been occurring.  Through out this chunk Heller has really started to create a way to maybe get Yossarian out of flying missions.  Yet we still have Colonel Cathcart to worry about ruining those plans, Heller wants to give the reader the hope that Yossarian will find a way out but we still have the suspense because so far nothing is too good to be true like there is always a catch. The only thing that really went well with out a catch was Luciana. Thats interesting I wonder if that is significant.

Question #3 Everything in the soldiers lives ends up with a catch.  For Yossarian messing around with Luciana was normal, no catch.  He didn't even have to pay her for the relations.  What do you think about that, is it significant and important to his life and or story?  Do you think that there is hope for all the catches is his life to slowly die down?

Chunk # 2 pgs 79-154

"parted like the Red Sea" (allusion pg 116) this alludes to the bible when Moses parted the Red Sea so that he could free all the Israelites.  

In Joseph Heller's novel Catch -22 Heller continues to introduce new characters and their background stories.  Heller introduces Major Major Major Major, Wintergreen, Captain Black, Major -- De Coverley, Kid Samson, and Piltchard and Wren.  Of course we still have the main character and the protagonist Yossarian, who still thinks somebody is out to get him. The antagonist this time is Captain Black and he basically dislikes everybody on the squadron.   He is the type of person who would mess with you so you can get mad.  In this chuck,  the squadron was volunteered, by Colonel Cathcart, to go on a dangerous tour to bomb Bologna.  Yossarian is doing everything in his power so that he doesn't have to do this mission because he just knows he is gonna get killed.  Eventually he fakes as if the radio doesn't work and and tell his pilot to turn around.  Come to find out after the mission none of his squadron got hurt and he is force to go back to Bologna and bomb it himself.  This time Bologna decides to attack back, Yossarian survived.  Still through out this novel we are getting repetition and allusions from time to time.  The most prominent is all the catches, like not necessarily a catch-22 but there are many catches that causes dilemmas.  

Question #2 Once the C.I.D told Major Major about the Washington Irving fiasco he started forging that name on important documents, later using the name to John Milton to stop the monotony. Do you think there is a deeper significance to the name Washington Irving, why or why not?

Now that I think about it maybe Major Major uses the rush from using the fictitious names to cut the mediocrity of his life.  Just a thought.

Also "Procrastination Is the Thief of Time" 

I really like this quote :)

Catch-22 pages 1-78

In Joseph Heller's novel Catch -22 he reveals a humorous story of the 256th squadron of Air Force Bombardiers.   The main character is a guy names Yossarian who thinks everybody is out to kill him.  Through out the first chunk Heller uses a lot of repetitions and speaks in circles.  On the first page already you sense all the confusion coming into play.  "The doctors were puzzled by the fact that it wasn't quite jaundice.  If it became jaundice they could treat it.  If it didn't become jaundice and went away they could discharge him.  But this is just being short of jaundice all the time confused them."  This novel is very confusing I found my self re-reading a lot of sections.  Heller use repetitions, allusions, humor, and hyperboles to foreshadow the theme of this Catch-22.  Catch - 22 means if you do it your damned and your damned if you don't.  The actual Catch -22 that falls into this story is that " a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved."  Many of the soldiers on this Squadron are eligible to leave but cant because the colonel wont discharge them even though they really are insane. I think the main character Yossarian is going to try and come up wit a plan and find a loop hole within the Catch -22 This novel is pure comedy because the characters are all crazy. Everybody has a problem with somebody.  Wouldn't you think that they would be friends having a good time because really the soldiers in the squadron are all you have.   They things they say and the reasons for they things they do are just weird, its something a normal sane person wouldn't do.  Heller takes us through the chapters by introducing a different characters story.  Each character has a little catch in their lives.  Heller's purpose is to really have the theme Catch 22 through out the novel in order to empower the real conflict of the Catch 22.

Question #1  Do think some of the characters are really sane and are playing as if they are insane???

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