Catch-22 Final Blog Post
As I come close to the end of the book I have decided to go over the whole plot and find/analyze the most important quotes of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. I then reflected on the meaning of the title and it’s role in the book. Also, I found a very interesting website, which you can visit by clicking here, that informed me about “15 things I didn’t know about Catch-22,” therefore, I decided to add some of them in my blog post... If you would like to learn read the book online you can click here and by clicking this link you can watch the movie.
6 Things You Do Not Know About “Catch-22”
- Joseph Heller sketched the book’s concept and characters in about 90 minutes
- And wrote the first chapter the next day at work
- Heller went through 4 numbers before landing on 22
- Many characters in the book are based on Joseph’s friends
- The author was inspired by a novel called “The Good Soldier Svejk” by Jaroslav HaĊĦek
- But was accused of plagiarizing another one: “Face of a Hero”
What’s Up With the Title?
Since the publication of the novel, the term “catch-22” has been used as a way to describe any ‘unsolvable logical dilemma’ or a deadlock. The logic of the book follows a law in which a person is circumstantially in trouble no matter what he/she chooses. For instance, in a situation in the story, the soldiers were sent on a mission in which only the insane soldiers were allowed to not go. If they pull back claiming to be “insane” they were obviously sane enough to go on the mission, while the soldiers that were not sane enough to pull back might have been insane but would’ve still went on the mission because they were not sane enough to pull back. However, as the story concludes itself, Yossarian states, “I’ve been fighting all along to save my country. Now i’m going to fight a little to save myself. The country is not in danger anymore. But I am.” This final decision proves that Yossarians finally leaves the army as a free man and deserts himself as he hopes for freedom.
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