Catch-22(v4)

There is a huge mission to the city of Bologna that is approaching. Colonel Cathcart who is the highest in command for the squadrons(next to the generals) volunteered the squadron to do the bombing mission. Bologna is rumoured to be the most deadly mission that can be done, with more flak cannons then anywhere and only a small amount of people are supposed to live. The bombing had been delayed several time because of the food poisoning(Yossarian did that) and inclement weather. When there was finally sun Yossarian and everyone else were very angry and scared. There was an operations tent with a map of the mission area, on the map was a pink ribbon marking where the ground troops were outside the city that hadn't moved in awhile. The night before the mission Yossarian snuck into the tent and moved the ribbon onto the city to make it look like it was captured, the mission was canceled. When the higher officers found out the city wasn't taken they were outraged and the mission took place anyway. After take off Yossarian was talking to the pilot when he ripped the inter comm system wiring from the wall. He then proceeded to the front of the plain and told them to turn back because of the problem. Every plane returned undamaged, there was no flak turrets but the target was missed. So the following day they set out again, Yossarian and all, When they got to Bologna they were bombarded with Flak and many people died but Yossarians evasive action got them out alive.

Catch-22(v3)

When Yossarian was in the hospital he decided to censor letters to pass time, since he was an officer he could. Yossarian would mark off every word except for "an" or "the" as censored. Yossarian would also censored the letters to be comical. When Yossarian censored he signed is name as Washington Irvin, but when he was bored with that he wrote Irving Washington as the name of the censorer. This drove C.I.D. men crazy, the C.I.D. men were like FBI that tried to figure out things that were illegal. One of the highest in commands full name is Major Major Major, his dad thought it was funny. Major was promoted to Major and is the highest in command of his local squadran. Major Major heard about someone signing Washington Irving as a name so he decided to do that with all the important orders he got. 2 C.I.D. men at different time came to see him about it both suspecting the other C.I.D. man as intercepting the letters and signing Washington Irving as the name. Major Major decided to use the John Milton and change it with Milton John because it was shorter, as he continued to sign the papers incorrectly.

Catch-22(v2)

Each chapter of Catch-22 has a center topic of one guy or place and some story about that person or place. Yossarian is still the main charcater though. Yossarian is thought by some people to be the only sane person around cause he wants to leave(but he acts insane for everyday life). Catch-22 is sort of like a form of irony, which is used in examples throughout the story. One example is: If you are insane you may leave, If you tell the doctor you are insane then you are obvioulsy sane because you want to go home, but if you don't ask the doctor then you are insane and can ask the doctor to leave, but when you ask the doctor you become sane. Another example is: The airforce says you can leave after 40 missions, the commander says you leave after 55 missions, the airforce also says to do what your commanding officer says. So you may leave after 40 missions only if the squad commander will let you, but he won't because you are needed

Catch-22

I'm reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller for English class. I'm at chapter 8 and so far I like the book and think it's actually pretty funny.The book is about a guy named Yossarian who is on the island of Pianosa, Italy as a bombardier. Yossarian does not want to die and keeps trying to get out of the army. He spends as much time as possible in the hospital and keeps trying to get the minimum amount of missions to go home.