Catch-22

I finished the book Catch-22 with a feeling of relief and sadness. In the end catch-22 feels like it gave you all the answers, but it didn't. Much like 1984 and Slaughterhouse-five the protagonist loses or at least doesn't receive the victory you were hoping for. Is this another anti war book? Yes. Is it the same as slaughterhouse-five? No. Truthfully the message I received from this book is that we are all crazy. And if we were extremely sane then we would be even more crazy. Yosarrian the protagonist of the book ends up having to decide between endorsing the generals he hated and going to jail for crimes he did not commit. In the end he decided to run, he decided to run and noticed that his comrade Orr had this idea of running long before he did. But I still need to think more about this there is a lot about catch-22 I still don't understand and I need time to reflect on it.

Another War Book

The new book I have finally been lucky to discover is a very renown book well at least its title is. The book I have started to read now is Catch-22 and it has been excellent. It is very reminiscent of the hitchhikers guide and 1984. This combination of cruelty and humor is something I have never seen before, but the results makes one intruiging book. To explain Catch-22 all you need to do is explain what the title means. A Catch-22 is a situation where no matter what decision you make things will either stay the same or go for the worst. This feeling of hopelessness and despair has been placed through some of the most funniest scenarios I have ever heard of. From a major whose name was major major, to the loyalty pact. Yossarian the main character has to take on the war with the upmost highest level of sanity. His perspective is usually very cold and dark, but very real when you reflect on it. The humor of the book however keeps you from getting depressed or shaken as you would while reading a book like 1984.

The Anti-War book

The purpose of slaughterhouse-five was it served as a meduim to show the horror of war. It goes on over and over to show the sensless brutality of war. It overviews a soldier and how things went from capture to camp to post war life. It constantly interchanges from the past and present to show the prolong effect of war. The focus on the bombing of dresden was actually one of those things that truthfully surprised me. It is a point in time in ww2 which fails to really reach the history books. The use of a story as a medium is another interesting thing i noticed. Over the course of history several writers have used stories to drill thier message into people subtleley.