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Catch-22
Title: Catch-22
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 917 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Catch-22
In the very opening pages of the novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, we come upon a number of Air Force officers malingering in a hospital on an Italian island during World War II. One is censoring all the letters of enlisted men and forging the censor¡¯s name ¡°Washington Irving¡± just for fun. Another is having tedious conversations with a boring Texan in order to increase his life span by making time flow slowly, when …showed first 75 words of 917 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 917 total…might seem quite selfish and cowardly. But it is the result of Yossarian¡¯s effort to get away from a crazy world governed and wrenched by the rule ¡°catch-22¡±. He is telling us to stand against injustice and unreasonableness but not just suffer through what we are given. Maybe it is our turn to reflect upon ourselves and see if we are the ones who exert unjust power over the weak and powerless around us.
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