Joseph Heller, through his extensive research concerning WWII, manages to express one of the ironies involved in serving as a pilot in this war. ... This is an example of how Joseph Heller neglects chronology in order to express the main theme of his novel. What Heller does is he breaks up the logical and chronological development of the narrative elements by taking bits and pieces of all three and mixing them together with dashes of expository and rhetorical comment without regard to logical or temporal or spatial connection (Burhans . ...

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