Chronology_In_Catch_22

Chronology In Catch 22 Lack of Chronology in Catch 22 Catch-22 has much passion, comic and fervent, but it gasps for want of craft and sensibility. A portrait gallery, a collection of anecdote, some of them wonderful, a parade of scenes, some of them finely assembled, a series of descriptions, yes, but the book is no novel. It, is like a brilliant painter who decides to throw all the ideas in his sketch books onto one canvas, relying on their charm and shock to compensate for the lack of design (Stern 50). The plot of this story is based around the title, Catch-22. This book is unusual in that the main theme of the book revolves around the title. 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 irony is perpetuated throughout this novel, and it negates the need for order or chronology in the plot. When Yossarian, the main character, tries to escape the army, he realizes that the only way possible to get out of the army is to declare insanity, but to declare insanity must indicate sanity. In effect, there is no way to escape catch-22, yossarian, theme, order, main, chronology, colonels, without, right, one, novel, heller, examples, escape, chronological, catch, book, army, way, war, tries, title, says, put, problem, plot, out, need, logical, lived, lack, joseph, insanity, home