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 :)
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