• An example: job-hunting
Analysis of the text
• General Setting:in an American army camp on the island of Pianosa, Rome during World War Ⅱ.
• Minor setting: yossarian remembered Snowden’s death when he (Yossarian) was wounded.
• Orr- shares tent with Yossarian, practices crashing every mission- eventually crashes and escapes.
• Nately – a soldier who had a love affair with a girl before his death. Yossarian broke the news of Nately’s death to her. In violent rage, she tried to kll him. Because of this, Yossarian was wounded( beginning of chapter41).
The theme
• Pity - The reader has pity for each soldier every time he is afraid to go on a mission.
• Reality- Each soldier has to face the fact that there is a chance that he may never come down from a mission alive.
Brief summary
• The novel tells a story of a pilot soldier Yossarian in WWⅡ. His task is to accomplish a certain number of flying missions. But his superior keeps raising the number using one military rule Catch22. it mainly describes every effort the protagonist Yossarian has made for his escape from the Catch-22 and ultimately from the war.
• Milo Minderbinder- mess officer; leader of the syndicate (black market/underground business dealings); willdo anything for a profit, even bomb his own squadron.
• Antagonist
• Cathcart:
• colonel that desperately wanted to be a general; unsure of himself, want to impress his superiorwhich is why he keeps raising the number of the missions
Minor characters
• Snowden- soldier who dies in Yossarian's plane; while Yossarian was treating him for minor leg wounds, Snowden was dying of fatal chest wounds- Yossarian feels guilty because if he had known about the real problem, he thinks he could have saved Snowden's life(chapter41).
• Chapter41: he was wounded and then treated by two fake doctors. When the “treatment” was over, he was told his superior was going to make him a “hero, and this acknowledgement let him remember his comrade Snowden’s death.
Main Characters源自• Protagonist
• Yossarian:
• paranoid, thinks everyone is trying to kill him( which is true); thinks everyone is crazy; feels guilty about the death of Snowden, which changes his view of war.
• Definition: an impossible situation; one in which the solution or success depends on mutually dependent factors: A depends on B; B, in turn, is dependent on A; so it is an interlocking situation in which there is no way out.
Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
Catch -22 Black Humor
Definition of the term
• It used to be a military term
• Because of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, it has
become an English idiom.