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- I feel like it might be better to just exclude the Week 4 date and to finish in 3 weeks, as we have the Chem/ AP Chem comp two days from the Week 4 date.
- If we were to do so, the new timeline will be put below under BP (Ben’s Preferred) Pages / Chapters.

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Chapters 1-14
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Discussion Highlights:
- Early hospital chapters are controversial.
- It seems that everyone introduced in this portion is dysfunctional.
- The Texan man was an interesting character, challenging the status quo of immorality in the hospital.
- The figure in CJ’s journal was thought-provoking.

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Catch-22 - Thug Notes Summary and Analysis

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Catch-22 - Thug Notes Summary and Analysis

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Meeting 1 Date: Monday, May 1st (Day of AP Chemistry Exam, likely no Anthony)
BP Pages / Section: Chapters 1-14
Pages / Section: Chapters 1-10

Meeting 2 Date: Wednesday, May 17th
BP Pages / Section: Chapters 15-28
Pages / Section: Chapters 11-21

Meeting 3 Date: Thursday, May 25th (?) (Great Adventure Trip)
BP Pages / Section: Chapters 29-42
Pages / Section: Chapters 22-31

Meeting 4 Date: Tuesday, June 6th
BP Pages / Section: DONE
Pages / Section: Chapters 32-42

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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller | How to Read It

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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller | How to Read It

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Chapters 29-42
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Discussion Highlights:
- Thinking about it now, the chaplain seemed like one of the few attractive people in the book so far.
- Major Major Major Major lives a pretty depressing life.
- Clevinger seems way too out of his element, but fittingly so with what the text hopes to portray.
- Doc Daneeka seems to embody self-centered thinking.

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, an animated summary

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, an animated summary

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Name: Ben Ciuffetelli
Email: 24080bc@chaminade-hs.org

Name: Anthony Cacamese
Email: 24054ac@chaminade-hs.org

Name: Christopher Galluccio
Email: 24162CG@chaminade-hs.org

Name: CJ Soliman
Email: 24384CS@chaminade-hs.org

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Don’t be a Doc Daneeka.

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I may write about the use of Yossarian as the perspective for the reader, and the pessimistic tone that came from it, leading to a more cynical book as a whole.

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Chapters 15-28
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Discussion Highlights:
- Great imagery in some scenes
- What if Watchmen but with poor artwork
- Most characters are mean (including Yossarian)
- Kind of trippy how the book isn't in chronological order.

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If you know you’re in danger, you’re not crazy enough to be excused from it.

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“‘Some of those invitations were mighty generous, but we couldn’t accept any because we were Indians and all the best hotels that were inviting us wouldn’t accept Indians as guests. Racial prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian. It really is. It’s a terrible thing to treat a decent, loyal Indian like a n****r, k*ke, w*p, or sp*c.’ Chief White Halfoat nodded slowly with conviction” (Heller 44)

Using his satirical tone through Halfoat’s ridiculous dialogue, Heller forms a comedic mood for the scene. Halfoat’s story is already satire, as he is claiming that his family has “oil-sensing abilities” due to how often they get kicked off their land by oil companies, with the claims getting more and more ridiculous. However, in this passage, he directly contradicts himself multiple times. He says that he was invited to hotels while simultaneoulsy not being allowed to stay at them. He says that racial prejudice is evil, while acting prejudiced towards several other racial groups in the next sentence. The irony of this is apparent, which makes the scene have an overall mood of comedy.

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- Joseph Heller, born in 1923 in Brooklyn, NY, would come to find himself as a part of the protest literature movement during WWII.
- Heller himself fought in WWII, flying 60 combat missions as a bombardier.
- Heller was a frequent critic of American politics, even beyond their involvement in WWII. With other critical texts such Good as Gold, that being a satire on life in Washington, D.C., Heller became a leading figure in criticism of U.S. life and policies, doing so through the medium of literature.

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I’m going to write about the unfairness of life as exemplified in Catch-22 inside and outside of the military.

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Address everyone as sir, sir.

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I’m likely going to be analyzing the deficiencies of the book, specifically the lulls that I felt at certain points, and the negative impact it had on the book at large.

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1 Brainstorm a LIST OF THEMES for the book thus far. Then, select one theme from the list and find at least three pieces of textual evidence to support it. 1

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I’m likely going to be analyzing the impact of the imagery in the text on the reading experience (my own, in specific).

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The ending of the text felt as wholesome as this book could possibly manage, all the while fitting the narratives that were first introduced to us as readers. For the text to end in a proper manner, that being a final denial of the military complexes that Yossarian found himself ensnared by, gives a fulfilling conclusion while illustrating the continued problem. Being that Yossarian did not actually solve anything in his choice to desert the military, a future soldier could easily have identical experiences to him, thus adding to the list of cyclical processes that define the novel.

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I found it really interesting how the general theme of the novel stays consistent throughout the text. While it may seem a bit repetitive to some, I appreciated how the text is unrelenting in its style and approach.

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1. It’s interesting how we all considered largely different aspects of the text to be the most worthy of discussion.
2. By and large, the beginning of the text was fairly interesting.
3. We could be a bit better in engaging in one another’s topics, and not glossing over them in order to further discuss our own topics.

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With the text coming to a close, I think what I appreciate most is the consistency in which the text was convoluted. For almost each and every situation to be burdened with not really making a lot of sense allows the reader to recognize the entirety of the book as a criticism, and more than just being so at certain points.

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1. The book has, while still remaining interesting, died down a bit (in some of our’s opinions).
2. The text seems a bit drawn out at some points.
3. Characters such as Major Major Major Major definitely remain as highlights of the text.

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- Our discussion could be a bit more focused at points, but it is clear we all have firm opinions on the book.
- The conclusion of the text resolved things in a fitting way.
- Without a proper ending, this text easily could have felt as if it was for nought.

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- Is a satirical novel written by Joseph Heller, published in 1961.
- Joseph Heller found inspiration for this text from his personal experiences in WWII.
- Largely takes place on the Mediterranean island of Pianosa in 1944.

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Catch-22, satirical novel by American writer Joseph Heller, published in 1961. The work centres on Captain John Yossarian, an American bombardier stationed on a Mediterranean island during World War II, and chronicles his desperate attempts to stay alive. Yossarian interprets the entire war as a personal attack and becomes convinced that the military is deliberately trying to send him to an untimely death. He therefore spends much of the book concocting ever more inventive ways of escaping his missions.

The "catch" in Catch-22 involves a mysterious Army Air Forces regulation which asserts that a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions but that if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. The term catch-22 entered the English language meaning "a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem."

Summary

Catch-22 exhibits a bewildering chronology, with its beginning taking place more than halfway through the events described, and it proceeds in a series of looping flashbacks. Most of the novel takes place on the Mediterranean island of Pianosa in 1944, where Yossarian is a bombardier serving under the indecisive and ambitious Colonel Cathcart, who continually raises the number of missions the men are required to fly before their tours of duty are completed. Yossarian is promoted to captain after a mission in Ferrara, Italy, in which, after missing a bridge, he flies back a second time and successfully destroys it, though a squadron member is killed.

Yossarian shares a tent with Orr, who crashes his plane on every mission but always survives, and with the belongings of Mudd, who was killed in action two hours after his arrival on base but before being officially checked in. The mess officer, Milo Minderbinder, gradually turns his mission to acquire food into an international black-market syndicate in which he eventually enlists the enemy Germans, at one point even having German planes (bearing the logo of his syndicate) bomb his own base (resulting in Mudd's death). Other characters include the flight surgeon Doc Daneeka and Hungry Joe, who suffers screaming nightmares except when he has missions to fly.

The central event of the story is a raid on Avignon, France. During the mission the incompetent copilot Dobbs seizes the controls from Huple, the 15-year-old pilot, and the radio-gunner, Snowden, is killed. His grisly death has a profound effect on Yossarian, who appears naked at the next formation and at Snowden's funeral. From that point on, Yossarian, acutely aware of his mortality, strives to avoid death at all costs. In an attempt to cancel a dangerous raid on Bologna, Italy, Yossarian convinces Colonel Korn that the enemy has a weapon that can glue a formation of planes together in midflight. Although the mission is eventually approved, Yossarian, flying with pilot Kid Sampson and copilot Nately, pretends that the intercom is broken in order to force them back to base early. The rest of the squadron returns unharmed. On another raid Yossarian's plane is hit, largely due to the incompetence of the navigator, Aarfy, but it lands safely. Later Yossarian fakes an illness in order to take refuge in the hospital, a tactic he uses frequently to avoid combat.

During a mission to Leghorn, Italy, Yossarian suffers a leg wound that results in his being hospitalized again. While there he and airman Dunbar take on the identities of other patients. After putting his hand up Nurse Duckett's skirt, Yossarian is sent to the hospital psychiatrist, who concludes that he is crazy and should go home. However, because the psychiatrist thought he was examining A. Fortiori, it is Fortiori who gets sent home.

After returning to his tent, Yossarian declines Orr's request to fly with him, and on his next mission Orr crashes into the Mediterranean and does not return. Cathcart then orders an attack on an undefended village in order to produce pleasing photographs for General Peckem. Dunbar, however, dumps his bombs a safe distance from the village. On a subsequent training run Yossarian threatens to strangle the pilot McWatt for performing dangerous aerial stunts. Later McWatt playfully buzzes the beach in his plane and accidentally slices Kid Sampson in half; he then deliberately crashes his plane into a mountain. Because Doc Daneeka was falsely listed on McWatt's manifest, it is assumed that he also died, and he is thereafter unable to convince anyone, including his wife, that he remains alive.

After four young recruits are assigned to Yossarian's tent, Yossarian escapes to Rome with Hungry Joe. While there Yossarian helps Nately rescue a prostitute being held by some senior officers. Nately is in love with the woman, and she now returns his affections. Later Nurse Duckett tells Yossarian that she has overheard a plan to "disappear" Dunbar; after that, Yossarian cannot find Dunbar. The number of required missions is raised to 80, and both Dobbs and Nately are killed in combat. Yossarian begins walking backward and refuses to fly more missions. He is sent to Rome to rest. When he tells the prostitute about Nately's death, she blames Yossarian and makes repeated attempts to kill him, even after he returns to Pianosa. However, when he learns that military police have emptied the brothel, he travels to Rome without permission. He is unable to find either the prostitute or her younger sister, and Rome has become shockingly barbarous. He goes to the officers' apartment, where he finds that Aarfy has raped and killed a maid. The military police arrive and arrest Yossarian for being in Rome without a pass.

Facing possible court-martial, Yossarian is offered a deal by Korn and Cathcart. They will promote him to major and send him home if he pretends to be friends with the two officers and shows support for their policies. Yossarian agrees, but, as he is leaving, Nately's prostitute, disguised as a private, stabs him. In the hospital a mysterious man tells Yossarian, "We've got your pal." Yossarian reflects that his only remaining friend is Hungry Joe, but the chaplain tells him that he too has died. Yossarian decides to renege on the deal. The chaplain returns to tell him that Orr has been found living in Sweden, and Yossarian decides to go there. As he leaves the hospital, Yossarian evades another murder attempt.

Analysis

Catch-22 turns its back on conventional notions of heroism in order to place war in a much broader psychological, sociological, and economic context. Hilariously funny, the novel's insights are also deadly serious. It marks a major departure from the austere realist approach that had dominated American war fiction until the sweeping changes of the 1960s. Alongside works by Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon, Catch-22 opened the floodgates for a wave of American fiction in which war was represented with a new countercultural sensibility in a language every bit as wild, grotesque, and bizarre as the real thing. In 1994 Heller published a sequel entitled Closing Time, which describes the later lives of some of the characters in Catch-22.

Though Catch-22 is set during World War II, it also addresses the effects of McCarthyism and the Red Scare during the 1950s in the United States. The book initially met with mixed reviews, but, with the advent of American involvement in the Vietnam War, the book became increasingly popular, eventually gaining the status of a classic. A 1970 film version, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Alan Arkin as Yossarian, contributed to the novel's growing fame.
Samuel Thomas The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Catch-22, satirical novel by American writer Joseph Heller, published in 1961. The work centres on Captain John Yossarian, an American bombardier stationed on a Mediterranean island during World War II, and chronicles his desperate attempts to stay alive.

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also : a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule the show-business catch-22-no work unless you have an agent, no agent unless you've worked: the circumstance or rule that denies a solution

Which Word Does Not Belong?

Which of these words does not mean "nonsense"?

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a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule; also : the circumstance or rule that denies a solution; an illogical, unreasonable, or senseless situation... See the full definition

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Catch-22: Full Book Summary | SparkNotes

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During the second half of World War II, a soldier named Yossarian is stationed with his Air Force squadron on the island of Pianosa, near the Italian coast in the Mediterranean Sea. Yossarian and his friends endure a nightmarish, absurd existence defined by bureaucracy and violence: they are inhuman resources in the eyes of their blindly ambitious superior officers. The squadron is thrown thoughtlessly into brutal combat situations and bombing runs in which it is more important for the squadron members to capture good aerial photographs of explosions than to destroy their targets. Their colonels continually raise the number of missions that they are required to fly before being sent home, so that no one is ever sent home. Still, no one but Yossarian seems to realize that there is a war going on; everyone thinks he is crazy when he insists that millions of people are trying to kill him.

Yossarian's story forms the core of the novel, so most events are refracted through his point of view. Yossarian takes the whole war personally: unswayed by national ideals or abstract principles, Yossarian is furious that his life is in constant danger through no fault of his own. He has a strong desire to live and is determined to be immortal or die trying. As a result, he spends a great deal of his time in the hospital, faking various illnesses in order to avoid the war. As the novel progresses through its loosely connected series of recurring stories and anecdotes, Yossarian is continually troubled by his memory of Snowden, a soldier who died in his arms on a mission when Yossarian lost all desire to participate in the war. Yossarian is placed in ridiculous, absurd, desperate, and tragic circumstances-he sees friends die and disappear, his squadron get bombed by its own mess officer, and colonels and generals volunteer their men for the most perilous battle in order to enhance their own reputations.

Catch-22 is a law defined in various ways throughout the novel. First, Yossarian discovers that it is possible to be discharged from military service because of insanity. Always looking for a way out, Yossarian claims that he is insane, only to find out that by claiming that he is insane he has proved that he is obviously sane-since any sane person would claim that he or she is insane in order to avoid flying bombing missions. Elsewhere, Catch-22 is defined as a law that is illegal to read. Ironically, the place where it is written that it is illegal is in Catch-22 itself. It is yet again defined as the law that the enemy is allowed to do anything that one can't keep him from doing. In short, then, Catch-22 is any paradoxical, circular reasoning that catches its victim in its illogic and serves those who have made the law. Catch-22 can be found in the novel not only where it is explicitly defined but also throughout the characters' stories, which are full of catches and instances of circular reasoning that trap unwitting bystanders in their snares-for instance, the ability of the powerful officer Milo Minderbinder to make great sums of money by trading among the companies that he himself owns.

As Yossarian struggles to stay alive, a number of secondary stories unfold around him. His friend Nately falls in love with a whore from Rome and woos her constantly, despite her continued indifference and the fact that her kid sister constantly interferes with their romantic rendezvous. Finally, she falls in love with Nately, but he is killed on his very next mission. When Yossarian brings her the bad news, she blames him for Nately's death and tries to stab him every time she sees him thereafter. Another subplot follows the rise of the black-market empire of Milo Minderbinder, the squadron's mess hall officer. Milo runs a syndicate in which he borrows military planes and pilots to transport food between various points in Europe, making a massive profit from his sales. Although he claims that "everyone has a share" in the syndicate, this promise is later proven false. Milo's enterprise flourishes nonetheless, and he is revered almost religiously by communities all over Europe.

The novel draws to a close as Yossarian, troubled by Nately's death, refuses to fly any more missions. He wanders the streets of Rome, encountering every kind of human horror-rape, disease, murder. He is eventually arrested for being in Rome without a pass, and his superior officers, Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn, offer him a choice. He can either face a court-martial or be released and sent home with an honorable discharge. There is only one condition: in order to be released, he must approve of Cathcart and Korn and state his support for their policy, which requires all the men in the squadron to fly eighty missions. Although he is tempted by the offer, Yossarian realizes that to comply would be to endanger the lives of other innocent men. He chooses another way out, deciding to desert the army and flee to neutral Sweden. In doing so, he turns his back on the dehumanizing machinery of the military, rejects the rule of Catch-22, and strives to gain control of his own life.

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Catch-22: Full Book Summary | SparkNotes

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During the second half of World War II, a soldier named Yossarian is stationed with his Air Force squadron on the island of Pianosa, near the Italian coast in the Mediterranean Sea. Yossarian and his friends endure a nightmarish, absurd existence defined by bureaucracy and violence: they are inhuman resources in the eyes of their blindly ambitious superior officers.

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The Mike Nichols 1970 adaptation is a masterpiece in virtually every way. Amazing cinematography, innovative de-constructed screenplay, absolutely perfect casting, and most importantly genuinely conveys the dark insanity of the war as Heller's novel portrays, the absurdity of the military, and the banality of evil. Spectacular in every respect.

Despite being 6 hours rather than 2, this really adds nothing, while falling short of the original film's concise storytelling. It's very pedestrian and TV movie in its approach looks more like an Abercrombie & Fitch commercial than a serious film. Interchangeable pretty boys that fail to differentiate themselves as characters.

It's competent and very watchable, but to me it falls well short of the film to an almost embarrassing degree. Not quite as bad a comparison as the TV version of "The Shining" to the Kubrick film, but damn close...

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The Mike Nichols 1970 adaptation is a masterpiece in virtually every way. Amazing cinematography, innovative de-constructed screenplay, absolutely perfect casting, and most importantly genuinely conveys the dark insanity of the war as Heller's novel portrays, the absurdity of the military, and the banality of evil. Spectacular in every respect.