Catch 22 Quotes

1.
"You murdered him," said Dunbar.
"I heard you kill him," said Yossarian.
"You killed him because he was a nigger," Dunbar said.
"You fellas are crazy," the Texan cried. "They don't allow niggers in here. They got a special place for niggers."
"The sergeant smuggled him in," Dunbar said.
"The Communist sergeant," said Yossarian.
"And you knew it."

- To me this shows the ignorance of the time period.

2.

"Who is Spain?"
"Why is Hitler?"
"When is right?"
"Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call Poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?"
"How was trump at Munich?"
"Ho-ho beriberi."
and
"Balls!"
all rang out in rapid succession, and then there was Yossarian with the question that had no answer:
"Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?"

- To me this shows  the lack of attention to what was actually happening in the war

3.

"Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."

- This shows me the commitment of soldiers in WW2

How I Best Learn About History

I really prefer to learn about history through writing and presentation. I like to be able to read a book and then have it presented to me. Learning about the general facts about the certain time period is interesting, but i really like to hear about a certain person's point of view.

Catch 22 Connections

1. Connection to Self: I have a great grandfather who was in WW2
2. Connection to World: I have watched a very long standing war happen.
3. Connection to Self: I don’t know know much about WW2
4. Text to Other Text: This novel reminds me of the oppression in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
5. Text to Same Text: Many of the characters have the same point of view on the situation that they have been put in.
6. Text to World. Many of war crimes have happened over history
7. Connection to Self: I would love to study more about the author
8. Text to Other Text: This story reminds me of many other war crime novels i have read
9. Connection to World: Many people have testified in court against war crimes
10. Text to Self: I need to read more by the author

Catch 22 Characters Bio's

John Yossarian: Yossarian is the main character in Catch 22. He is a soldier in WW2 and is becoming suspicious of the commands given from his superiors.

Captain Aardvark: Aardvark is the navigator in Yossarian’s B-52 bomber. He always smokes a pipe and frequently gets lost.

Chaplain Tappman: Tappman is the a naive priest who flies with Yossarian, helping him on missions.

Catch 22 Connections Between Textbook and Novel

There are many differences between the novel Catch 22 and the textbook that i read. I was very interested once again to see the connection the novel made to a single person, rather than the big picture. The big picture around WW2 is mainly focused around the Nazi regime, rather than the soldiers that were involved. Most of the story is based around true events, even though most of the events didn't actually happen.

Catch 22 Description

Catch 22 is a great book and even though it never won any awards it still stands as one of the best selling books in the United States since its release. Catch 22 doesnt start off with a bang but it starts off with an introduction to a very fascinating main charicature named yossarian. Yossarian is a soldier that is stationed on Pianose island near the italian coast in the medateranian seas during the second half of World War 2. Most of Catch 22 is told from Yossarians point of view and the story rarely diverges his dialog. Yossarian and his friends are put through a hellish nightmare in which thier superior officers command them to make bomb runs in which it is more important for them to take good arial photos of the explosans rather than actually hit there targets. Many men start to die in these runs and Yossarian starts to see a trend. He starts to belive that his superior officers are trying to make the men do as many runs as they can before they send them home, so that there will be no one to send home. The thought of this cruel joke makes Yossarian very upset. After contemplating what to do Yossarian decides to fake illness to avoid the war and seek refuge in a local hospital. As the story progresses Yossarian is desterbed by the memories he has of loosing his friends in the war. He is also troubled by the thought of how ruthless his supirior officers were. The officers would not only send the men in the squadron on horrible bombing mission but they would also take it upon themselves to bomb the squadron themselves. Eventually Yossarian escapes his superiors and spends his time on the streets of italy witnessing many horrible acts such as murder, and rape. In the end after much traveling, Yossarian is arrested for not being a legal citizen. He is sent to his superiors and is given a choice. He can either face a court martial, or he can be sent home with an honorable discharge, but there is a catch. If he does not publicly support his superiors in their decision to send the men on over 80 more mission. Yossarian is tempted by this offer but then realizes that it would be a betrayal of his fellow soldiers. Instead of choosing one of the options he decides to escape to neutral sweden to live out his life.