Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. Compare and Contrast Holden and Huckleberry Finn. How does their adolescent inexperience permit their creators, Salinger and Mark Twain, to assert moral values? 2. […]
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Salinger’s other important books, all of which were published after The Catcher in the Rye, deal with a more extensive family than Holden’s: the Glass […]
About the Author
Joseph Heller was born on May 1, 1923, in New York City, and grew up near the Coney Island amusement park. His parents, recent Russian […]
Setting
The novel’s Setting is the mythical island of Pianosa, modeled closely on Corsica and located off the coast of Rome, eight miles south of Elba. […]
Themes and Characters
The protagonist of Catch-22, Captain John Yossarian, is motivated by two closely related impulses: to subvert the repressive military establishment and to survive. His desperate […]
Literary Qualities
Catch-22 both absorbs and parodies a variety of literary genres. Given the book’s fragmented chronology, episodic structure, and caricatured characterizations, some critics have objected to […]
Social Sensitivity
Readers desensitized to the indifference and brutality of society as chronicled every evening on television may not find Catch-22 as horrifying as did readers in […]
Topics for Discussion
1. Catch-22 is an allegory; that is, each character represents some human quality. List the major Characters and their allegorical characteristics. 2. Yossarian’s nickname is […]
Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. Research the philosophical terms “existentialism” and “nihilism” and show how they apply to the Themes in Catch-22. 2. Read the novel One Flew over […]