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.