2. The theme of the novel is to condemn the idea of war instead of praising it. The men that go through a war experience horrors that they cannot forget and to praise something that is absolute evil is absurd. Men are praised as heroes when they come back, but most don't fell that way after they've seen the carnage.
3.
The author used a lot of satire within the novel and it created a very sarcastic tone. This help set the mood for how Yossarian felt about war especially when his friends began to die. Also, the story is told through third person omniscient which allows the reader to see Yossarian from an outsider's perspective. The story is fragmented with flashbacks of the war.
4.
Yossarian was in the hospital with a pain in his liver that fell just short of being jaundice. The
doctors were puzzled by the fact that it wasn't quite jaundice. If it became jaundice they could treat
it. If it didn't become jaundice and went away they could discharge him. But this just being short of
jaundice all the time confused them.Irony
Yossarian had everything he wanted in the hospital.
Reference
Catch-22 required that each censored letter bear
the censoring officer's name.
Imagery
He had been smuggled
into the ward during the night, and the men had no idea he was among them until they awoke in the
morning and saw the two strange legs hoisted from the hips, the two strange arms anchored up
perpendicularly, all four limbs pinioned strangely in air by lead weights suspended darkly above
him that never moved. Sewn into the bandages over the insides of both elbows were zippered lips
through which he was fed clear fluid from a clear jar.Personification/Onomatopoeia
Even in Yossarian's ward, almost three
hundred feet away, they could hear the roar of the blaze and the sharp cracks of flaming timber.
Symbolism
Yossarian straightened sharply when he spied the tiny silver cross on the other side of the chaplain's
collar. He was thoroughly astonished, for he had never really talked with a chaplain before.Simile
Aarfy was like an eerie ogre in a dream, incapable of being bruised or evaded, and Yossarian dreaded him for a complex of reasons he was too petrified to untangle.
Metaphor
An innocent nest of
ancient pimple pricks lay in the basin of each cheek.Irony
Dunbar was working so hard at
increasing his life span that Yossarian thought he was dead.Allusion
As far back as Yossarian could recall, he explained to Clevinger with a patient smile, somebody
was always hatching a plot to kill him. There were people who cared for him and people who didn't,
and those who didn't hated him and were out to get him. They hated him because he was Assyrian.
But they couldn't touch him, he told Clevinger, because he had a sound mind in a pure body and
was as strong as an ox. They couldn't touch him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon.
He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom,
Deirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees. He was miracle ingredient Z-247.
He was -
'Crazy!' Clevinger interrupted, shrieking. 'That's what you are! Crazy!
CHARACTERIZATION
1.
Indirect
"After he had made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to
everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a
better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. 'They
asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get
back.' And he had not written anyone since."
"As far back as Yossarian could recall, he explained to Clevinger with a patient smile, somebody
was always hatching a plot to kill him. There were people who cared for him and people who didn't,
and those who didn't hated him and were out to get him. They hated him because he was Assyrian.
But they couldn't touch him, he told Clevinger, because he had a sound mind in a pure body and
was as strong as an ox. They couldn't touch him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon.
He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom,
Deirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees. He was miracle ingredient Z-247.
He was -
'Crazy!' Clevinger interrupted, shrieking. 'That's what you are! Crazy!"Through the use of indirect characterization, the author establishes the crazy side of Yossarian. Yossarian has bee living in his own world in the hospital and now he can't get out of it.
Direct
"I'm dead serious about those other wards,' Yossarian continued grimly. 'M.P.s won't protect you,
because they're craziest of all. I'd go with you myself, but I'm scared stiff: Insanity is contagious.
This is the only sane ward in the whole hospital. Everybody is crazy but us."
"But Yossarian couldn't be happy, even though the Texan didn't want him to be, because outside the
hospital there was still nothing funny going on. The only thing going on was a war, and no one
seemed to notice but Yossarian and Dunbar. And when Yossarian tried to remind people, they drew
away from him and thought he was crazy. Even Clevinger, who should have known better but didn't,
had told him he was crazy the last time they had seen each other, which was just before Yossarian
had fled into the hospital."The use of direct characterization shows that Yossarian couldn't be happy because he was scared to leave the hospital and be involved in a war. The hospital he fled to protected him from the outside world and that is why he didn't want to leave. He was afraid that if he left he would become crazy from all that he witnessed outside.
2. When the author focuses on a character, he becomes very sescriptive and the sentences are drawn out to describe them in a flowy manner. The diction does not really change when he focuses on a character.
3. Yossarian is a dynamic and round character because he undergoes a sense of change. He goes from being someone who is afraid to go into the world because of what the war has done to him. In the end he wants to go and fight no matter what the cost is.
4.
"But Yossarian couldn't be happy, even though the Texan didn't want him to be, because outside the
hospital there was still nothing funny going on. The only thing going on was a war, and no one
seemed to notice but Yossarian and Dunbar. And when Yossarian tried to remind people, they drew
away from him and thought he was crazy. Even Clevinger, who should have known better but didn't,
had told him he was crazy the last time they had seen each other, which was just before Yossarian
had fled into the hospital."
After reading this novel I felt like I had known a person because of the turmoil Yossarian experienced. He was afraid to leave the hospital because he didn't want to have to fight a war only to lose his friends. The example above shows that he was not happy because there was a war going on outside of the hospital. Once you get past the patriotism and glory of war the only thing that is left os death, turmoil, and carnage.
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