Catch 22 Dialectical Journal

This book does give you the feeling of actually being there and living it. I’d give this book a three star, because it gives you just enough to keep you interested, but it doesn’t give you enough to have you hooked on it. To say the leas t this not the most exciting read so don’t let the title fool you by making you think “war? Oh yea!” it’s not that intense.

Overall the book is a great historical book that teaches people not just about the horrors of the war but those who continued to fight for the justice for all humans. It explains the difficulty of finding these people and the amount of work required to find and capture these

I choose prompt 6. The three chapters of this book are arguably the climax of this book because Alfie went to the hospital and learned that this hospital is used for people with shell shock. The next day, Alfie was shining the shoes of the prime minister and, while not being seen overheard his conversation between him and his mother. He heard that his mom knows that his dad is in the hospital and would not tell him. After knowing this Alfie decided to bring his dad back home. Before doing this he had to let someone know about his plan, so he told his dad's old friend Joe. Joe is a conscious objector who went to jail got beaten up and still refused to fight in the war. He did this because his old man was a violent one and Joe swore to never

1. “...but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself,” (106 Chopin). This sort of selfishness is prevalent throughout the entire novella. Edna fights the entire novel with an instinct she doesn’t understand. When she does, she doesn’t cage the elephant, instead lets it trample every facet of her life. If this primal instinct is viewed as a foil to Edna’s previous life, and therefore its own character, then one might interpret this as freedom for this entity and Edna indulges in it tragically.

I really liked this book. I am really glad I read this book because I am interested in the situation between the rebels and the child soldiers. I really like the way the author wrote his book. It was sad, but there were also really happy parts. The way the author put his words together made reading the book really easy to read. For example, “ On the morning that we left for Mattru Jong, we loaded our backpacks with notebooks old lyrics we were working on, and stuffed our pockets with cassettes of rap albums.” The story is very believable. The book was easily understood as well. There were some words that he used in the book that were confusing because some of the words he uses are different from what we are used to. For example in the book, the word for sneakers is crapes. He also calls a porch, a

When I first picked up this book I thought that it was another Vietnam era book talking about the battles and other things of that nature. When I got past the first chapter my views on this book flipped around. This is one of my favorite books I have read so far in 2016.

Now I will be honest when I say normally I am not a fan of “war stories”. Thinking back I believe its because I considered them all the same, with pages of lost friends, confusion and sadness. Though your book holds those elements it does something that most do not: illustrate humanity in war. Myself have always imagined soldiers as extremely rational and no nonsense types. The chapter “Stockings” showed how even the brawniest man such as Machine Gunner Dobbins can hold on to things others would see as insane. I loved Kiowa as a character due his compassionate nature as a character. The way he was adamant at discussion such as when Lavender died made me feel as though he may not simply like to talk. Maybe he just understood that even speaking

Combining all these serious themes into a very entertaining book should attract many readers. However, there was some confusion with the story line. Since this book is a collection of interviews, it wasn’t a conventional story. When I first started the book, I wasn’t sure why I was jumping from country to country and why each story was completely different. As I continued to read the book, I was able to understand that these were a collection of eyewitness accounts of the war. Also, Max Brooks uses a rife amount of vulgar language which I think could have been kept out. However, it made it real and that’s what this book is about.

The author attempted, perhaps successfully, to convey the guilt that survivals of such tragic events like a war face. He is the prime example himself. The author seems to jump from one topic to another without a conclusion to the previous topic. He then goes back to the previous topic. This makes it a bit challenging to keep track of the story.

I did not like the book because it vividly describes the pains the citizens went through in the hands of war. When countries decide to go to war, it is not the people

I had a hard time getting into this book until the last few chapters. Right away the readers are hit with cliché lines and boring scenes. I felt as though I was watching the scenes as an outsider, and not present within the book. The author also used a lot of repetitive vocabulary within the same couple of paragraphs and used repetitive description that was unnecessary. At times I saw the story was inconsistent; the author would describe something a certain way, but then change it in

It was such an incredible story of brother’s love and it gave me more insight of what has happened to people’s life during World War II. It also gave me the knowledge of our country his story. This book wasn’t boring to read when I started read the first chapter. Because it is about the love of family and the history of our country and our heroes. I found this book very informative and helpful tips of learning how the soldiers have struggled and suffered for their

The authors work was very effective on reaching out to the audience she wanted. I don’t believe her purpose was effective on reaching out to that audience. Not many kids would understand that the purpose for writing this story would be about the effects of war. I believe they would think it was about entertainment, or romance. The first time I read this book I never really understood it, but now I understand it completely, now that I’m older.

Heller begins the novel by portraying Yossarian’s opposition to his circumstances as passive and not wholehearted in nature, creating a starting point for the revelation of his intellectual journey. This is first seen in Yossarian’s strange response to Clevinger’s questioning of who exactly is trying to kill them, which he responds “Every one of them” (Heller 17). This ridiculous portrayal of Yossarian’s opposition to his enemy is fanciful, almost ridiculous, and the reader is bamboozled by the ridiculous logic which is highly contrary to traditional logic. It makes it seem like he is overestimating a common circumstance and is overreacting, so the conflict is seen as unimportant. The absurdity continues with Orr and his unique habit of keeping crab apples in his cheeks and rubber balls in his hands to “deny there were crab apples in [his] cheeks” (Heller 24) by

The author, Joseph Heller, creates the character of Yossarian as a way to express his true beliefs of what heroism is. The book Catch-22 has impacted many people with how it refers to war and the way the soldiers fought and survived it. Joseph Heller created a new way of how to view the war and how most of the soldiers felt through it at that time. The approach that Heller took towards the meaning of war and what truly happens in it was formed when he himself served. Today, some soldiers still have that feeling, but not quite as strong as back then.