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?
I believe that the way Heller wrote the book and how he looks into the past that he's trying to show how life is a Catch along with showing a person's past that leads to the official catch.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the author write his novel in the past and also the present to show how the past effected the present. Not the future but the present and it shows how life can be a catch whether you knew it or not.
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