Being involved in War Has Made Us Insane: The Book "Catch 22"

Yossarian is called into the office of Colonel Cathcart after destroying Kraft’s plane. “’All right,’ Colonel Cathcart decided. ‘We’ll give him a medal for being brave enough to go around over the target twice. And we’ll make him a captain too’” (Heller 139).

The second part of the book which discusses the actual causes of war starts of by declaring one of the most important reasons for war is that the two rivals think that going to war

The videos about “Buying the War and Bush’s War,” show the American people the cruel reality about the war in Iraq. They display many of the atrocities committed within the war, were many Americans and Iraqis died. This was the time when the country of the United States was under George Bush’s administration (2001-2008). All was initiated after the attack to the World Trade Center, on 9/11, which was one of the biggest terrorist attacks that anyone could ever live. Many people that witnessed what happened or heard the news still remember the tragedy. On that day the U.S. Citizens became angry, anxious, and scared about their safety. In respond to this, the U.S. President, George W. Bush, decided to retaliate against terrorists and

The instance I’m choosing is in “Enemies”. When Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen got into a fight about who took Jensen’s knife. Strunk’s nose was broken and through the rest of the week, Jensen was paranoid that Strunk was going to do something to him. “ Eventually, after a week of this, the strain began to create problems. Jensen couldn’t relax. Like fighting two different wars, he said. No safe ground: enemies everywhere. No front or rear. At night he had trouble sleeping - a skittish feeling- always on guard, hearing strange noises in the dark, imagining a grenade rolling into his foxhole or the tickle of a knife against his ear. The distinction between good and bad guys disappeared for him. Even in times of relative safety…” This is surreal because Jensen couldn't have forgotten the distinction between good and bad people, especially not with Alpha Company.

In 1914-1919, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand was the cause of World War One, resulting in conflicts between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. In the Great War, No Man’s Land was a dividing field from the opposing trenches located in France. Soldiers were forced to cross the land to push forward their side of the battle, to either take control or defend the territory. Gas was often used in the trenches to wipe out large groups of soldiers at a time. During the battle, soldiers would come across harsh conditions such as disease, treacherous terrain, and the passing of men. Soldiers sent into war experienced hard decisions and tragedies which can change their mentality. In the story, The Wars Timothy Findley develops the idea that when an individual faces dilemmas in life, one’s innocence can vary due to a person’s human nature.

To Yossarian he was “living” the dream, because he could fake pains and need to stay in the hospital for days at a time until he “felt better” which kept him out of flying missions. While this was “everything he wanted”, we later learn that Colonel Cathcart (complete ignorant sun of a gun) keeps raising the missions the soldiers have to fly until they are allowed to be grounded and this actually hurts Yossarian’s plan of staying here until the war is over. Although the hospital seemed to be his paradise, no one liked him there but let him stay even though some knew he was lying about the pains in his liver, bringing up one of the several reasons his squadron was very contradictory and messed

Tiara, I think you hit the nail right on the head. The United States government is a case in point that has helped a lot of countries and we continue to do so, on a regular base. We the people or government that the people elected help so much throughout the world because of our Christian faith this country was built on. There are times, such as after a war, the United States disengages from the country early leaving the citizens and an unprepared military to fend for themselves. Although things may have been not the best before we engaged in war, when leaving a country in an unprepared situation can result in rebel forces taking over, creating a possible more threating situation.

In Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, many characters are traumatized because they are all involved in an ongoing war, some of the characters go on to do horrible things, and many men simply go insane. However, there is one character that is the worst of them all Heller’s character Captain “Aarfy”Aardvark: suffering from traumatic experiences and the loss of a woman's touch, Aarfy goes on to do the worst thing imaginable, he rapes a woman and then kills her because it is “his most condescending manner”(Heller 427). Heller ultimately shows how a traumatic situation can lead a terrible person to do dreadful actions.

Yossarian cannot go home because his superiors require him for their own personal gain, and it makes no difference what justification they might give for making him stay. The rest of Yossarian’s squadron has a ‘false consciousness’; they are accepting of the overbearing military system, ironically calling Yossarian, “crazy”. “They’re trying to kill me,” Yossarian told him calmly. Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone". “And what difference does that

Everybody knows that guy or girl who they believe to be nuts. They may have done something completely bonkers, or have done nothing unacceptable at all. They may have no cause at all, in a way it takes one to know one. This is different for Yossarian, where everyone he knows is actually psychotic. Literally, all the characters in Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 are completely mental, Yossarian is constantly falling in love with people that end up not replicating a mutual feeling, Colonel Cathcart relentlessly sends his men to their death just so he can climb the ranks to General, final there is Milo Minderbinder, the biggest loon of them all. Milo Minderbinder is literally out of his mind at one point in the book he attempted to force the company to consume chocolate covered Egyptian cotton, he did this because a Egyptian told him that Egyptian cotton would be very valuable, so he purchased all of it just manufacture profit for his syndicate. Milo Minderbinder is the most magnificent character in Catch 22 he

Texts that deal with the theme of conflict make us think. Conflict is the centre of all dramatic development in the three texts I will be discussing. These are Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, and O Brother Where Art Thou’, directed by Joel Coen. There are many forms of conflict expressed in these texts. These include both emotional and physical conflict. Conflict has been brought about in many ways throughout these texts. Most of which has been fuelled by inner discord. However a person’s inner conflict can often lead to violent activity. This demonstrates that both forms of conflict are indeed affiliated.

“The Tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst” wise words from Henry Fosdick. When it comes down to the time where an individual hits rock bottom, a man either do its best or do its worst. Although, Man can do its best and do its worst at the same time. There are many reasons how man’s best can result to man’s worst. Henry Fosdick statement is both true and false.

This paper reviews America’s paradoxical love-hate relationship with war and how this relationship influences American warfare through the research and study of the interpretation and analyzation of American military models, policy and goal changes, the use of military technology, “American way of war,” and the relationship with, preparation for, and application of war.

Heller makes Yossarian struggle which creates the path for Yossarian’s existential choice. Yossarian’s existential journey ends in chapter 40, titled “Catch-22,” when Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn try and persuade Yossarian to either to choose moral corruption or court martial. Note that as an archetypal anti hero, Yossarian initially accepts the men's deal and chooses moral corruption. However, as the novel continues to the end of chapter 40, he has an ambush both physically and on conscience when Nately’s whore attacked him. This moment acts as symbolism.

The audience learns a great deal about Yossarian , the protagonist of the book, and his desire to live when he “was the best man in the group at evasive action ... All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that … more fear than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday. Yossarian had not resigned himself to that idea, and he bolted for his life wildly on each mission the instant his bombs were away” (Heller 59). By the end of the novel, when the colonels have doubled the amount of missions required from 35 to 70, Yossarian realizes that the only way to live is to escape the squadron and he justifies this action with, “I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life” (Heller 461). Another one of Yossarian’s friends, McWatt, was also deeply affected by the setting. He is best described as “crazy. [McWatt] was a pilot and flew his plane as low as he dared over Yossarian's tent as often as he could, just to see how much he could frighten him, and loved to go buzzing the sand bar at the immaculate white beach” (Heller 27). Eventually McWatt’s craziness caught up to him as “[McWatt’s] senses dropped the speeding plane down just low enough for a propeller to slice [Kid Sampson, another pilot in the squadron] half away” (Heller 348). McWatt eventually