Pages / Section: chapters 1-2,3

Meeting 2 Date: feb 6

Pages / Section: chapters 4,5,6

Meeting 3 Date: Feb 14th

Pages / Section: chapters 7-10

Meeting 4 Date:Feb 22

Pages / Section: chapters 11- 15

Members Present: all the fellas

Discussion Highlights:

-1. Yossarian's Struggle:

- Yossarian continues to grapple with the absurdity of war and the Catch-22 bureaucratic paradox, which states that a soldier must be insane to fly dangerous combat missions but can be deemed sane if he requests to be grounded, thus rendering him ineligible for discharge.

2. Milo's Enterprises:

- Milo Minderbinder expands his syndicate, which includes a black market operation, profiteering schemes, and eventually evolves into M&M Enterprises, a vast business empire operating within the military.

3. Moral Dilemmas and Absurdity:

- The narrative delves into the moral ambiguity of wartime decisions and the absurdity of military bureaucracy, exemplified by the characters' interactions with superiors and the illogical rules they must navigate.

4. Satirical Commentary:

- Heller employs satire to critique various aspects of society, including capitalism, patriotism, and the dehumanizing effects of war, as seen through the lens of absurd and often comical situations.

5. Character Development:

- The chapters further develop the personalities of key characters such as Yossarian, Major Major, Milo, and Colonel Cathcart, highlighting their struggles, motivations, and relationships within the surreal world of the military.

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3.the characters are developed into their true selves and we see that through the events occurring in these chapters.

Members Present: everyone

Discussion Highlights:

-Clevinger’s plane disappears in a cloud off the coast of Elba, and he is presumed dead. Yossarian, however, is unable to conceive of Clevinger’s death, and instead assumes that he is simply, and inexplicably, missing. The narrator then describes ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen’s past: back in the U.S., ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen continually goes AWOL. He is required to dig holes and fill them up again as punishment—work he approaches as a duty to his country. One day, ex-P.F.C.Wintergreen nicks a water pipe, and water sprays everywhere. Since Chief White Halfoat is with Wintergreen, everyone assumes that it is oil, and Halfoat and Wintergreen are both sent away to Pianosa.

Yossarian recalls Mudd, a soldier who had arrived at the camp and died in combat before even reporting for duty. Nobody can actually remember Mudd, but his belongings remain in Yossarian’s tent and seem to be “contaminated with death.” This reminder of death causes Yossarian to think about the deadly mission of the Great Big Siege of Bologna, for which Colonel Cathcart had bravely volunteered his men. At the time, not even sick men could be grounded by doctors. One of the doctors, Dr. Stubbs, asked cynically what point there was to saving lives when everyone was going to die anyway. Dunbar replied that the point was to live as long as possible and forget about the fact that death was inevitable.

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2.we are seeing what yossarion can really do and why he does the things he does.

3.we will find out how dr stubs and Dunbar will be in the chapters to come and if we make any predictions on what we think will happen actually happens.

Members Present:  everyone

Discussion Highlights:

-Yossarian’s vague guilt about abandoning his friends reveals a weakness in his philosophy of self-preservation: he seems to have no qualms about abandoning the mission and thereby keeping himself alive, but he does care about his friends and feels a mild trepidation while he awaits their return. Up to this point, Yossarian’s sole goal in life has been survival at the expense of everything else: he has subjected himself and his squadron to various illnesses, refused to enjoy fruit because it might make him healthy, and endured rather unpleasant hospital stays—all for the sake of not having to fly missions. Yossarian faces a difficult dilemma: on one hand, caring for others is destructive in that it undermines his ability to try to save his own life; on the other hand, caring for others is the only thing that mitigates the impersonal hatred that Yossarian perceives directed toward him.

The interlude with Luciana provides a welcome respite from life in the camp on Pianosa, but it also illustrates the strain placed on male-female relationships by the war. Luciana and Yossarian seem legitimately drawn to one another, but their relationship is brief and almost wholly sexual. Hungry Joe’s interruption of their time together demonstrates the glaring lack of privacy in Yossarian’s life and highlights the difficulty of having meaningful relationships in wartime. Similarly, Yossarian’s tearing up of Luciana’s number constitutes an act of irrational, self-satisfied exuberance that seems part and parcel of the absurd ironies forced on him by the Catch-22 mentality of the war. He is so overwhelmed at the end of this section—after Bologna, after Luciana, and after he learns that the number of missions has been raised yet again—that he decides to check into the hospital, a place of relative sanity and safety

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2.you need to be strong and have faith that you will get through things because there was lots of struggle in these chapters but the way the characters got through it is showed through there actions.

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Members Present:  everyone

Discussion Highlights:

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-In the beginning of "Catch-22," we meet Captain Yossarian in World War II. He's stuck in a weird situation where military rules are confusing and contradictory. There's this rule called "Catch-22" that says if you want to avoid dangerous missions for safety reasons, you're considered sane, but then you have to fly. It's a crazy loop that shows how absurd war can be. The first two chapters introduce us to this chaotic world, full of strange rules and characters, setting the tone for the rest of the story.

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2- make a prediction for what will come in the future chapters. Who do you think will do what or do you think anything will happen that the others don’t see coming.

3- Talk about the book. Ask other groups or even the teacher and see what they think about it. Have a conversation about what is going on and everyone opinions on it.

Use things like what would you do situations for events in the book.