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Life is filled with situations that are very difficult to find an escape. Even once in a while, life presents a situation that is beyond difficult, and completely impossible to escape from. These situations were expanded upon and brought to obvious light in Joseph Heller's novel, Catch-22. This novel was such a masterful work that the phrase, catch-22 came to be synonymous with the situations that Heller portrays in his novel. Set in the final months of World War II, Catch-22 tells the story of a bomber squadron on the mythical island of Pinosa, just off of Italy. The story is told through the eyes of Captain John Yossarian, one of the few sane men in the novel, who sees all of the impossible situations his squadron is placed in. "For Catch-22 is the unwritten loophole in every written law which empowers the authorities to revoke your rights whenever it suits their cruel whims; it is, in short, the principle of absolute evil in a malevolent, mechanical, and incompetent world. Because of Catch-22, justice is mocked, the innocent are victimized, and Yossarian's squadron is forced to fly more than double the number of missions prescribed by Air Force code" (Skreiner 1). The mops vivid examples of the paradoxes created by catch-22 com
"We have no choice," Milo informed him resignedly. "It's in the contract." Joseph Heller makes a point in his novel that the people trapped in a catch-22 are placed there by some outside force, the wing commander, the military system in general. These all are "arms" of the insane world that Heller portrays. One character, Milo Minderbinder, is caught for a separate reason. Milo is the personification of greed, and pushes himself into his catch because of this overwhelming trait. Milo founds and run M & M Enterprises, a syndicate consisting only of himself. Milo expands his syndicate to provide anything for anyone. He runs planes for the Germans, Americans, Europeans, and British. He moves trees, food, steel, and weapons. Milo is shown as a man who can sell anything, and will, for a profit. His downfall springs from a stock market ticker Milo discovers in a restaurant in Cairo. Having never seen a ticker before, he is fascinated, and reads the first tape printed, Egyptian Cotton. Instantly Milo purchases the entire crop, thinking it will be easy to sell at the low price he bought it for. The cotton he buys is Milo's flaw, because he can not sell it. His syndicate begins to falter, and to recoup his profits, Milo begins to rent out his squadron as mercenaries. Milo is paid by the Americans to bomb a bridge that he is being paid by the Germans to defend. His squadron becomes a mercenary squad, until the one time Milo steps to far, and rents out his squadron to the Germans, to bomb his own base. e from the specific characters; Hungry Joe, Doc Daneeka, Orr, Milo Minderbinder, and Yossarian.
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Approximate Word count = 2166
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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