Joseph Heller's outrageously funny and very affecting novel Catch-22 is a perfect example. ... Heller's past is very evident throughout Catch-22. ... Catch-22 is a social satire that utilizes dark humor. ... Furthermore, the main character in Catch-22, Yossarian, is essentially based on Heller himself. ... While Catch-22 takes place in 1944, in it Heller makes frequent allusions to events in America in the 1950s, when he wrote the novel. ...

• Word Count: 896
• Approx Pages: 4
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• Grade Level: High School

The novel, Catch-22, was first published in 1961 by Joseph Heller. ... Thus the phrase "catch-22" came to mean "a proviso that trips one up no matter which way one turns." Joseph Heller was born on May 1, 1923 to Russian immigrant parents and from an early age aspired to be a writer. When Heller was just five years old, his father died at work. ... His experiences and memories during this war became the basis for his first novel, Catch-22. ...

• Word Count: 587
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, the main character, John Yossarian, is an example of a person with intelligent ideas, but actions that reflect those of an insane person. ... Heller even tries to get the reader to believe that Yossarian is insane by describing him as having, "an unreasonable belief that everybody around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him"(29). ... This tactic goes over quite well until he discovers Catch-22. ... Heller writes, "He had de...

• Word Count: 2803
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Essay: War's Influence Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarqueare two novels which are both different and alike. ... In Catch 22 Yossarian is beginning to lose his mind a little. ... In Catch 22 Yossarian goes AWOL meaning he simply runs away. ... The difference between the novels is that whereas in Catch 22 the main character continues to be afraid and goes mad and tries a sure deadly task just to escape. ... A huge difference in them is that Catch 22 is actually a comedy and satirizes the war. ...

• Word Count: 1371
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School