Catch-22 Author

Author Biographical Information
Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn in 1923. He served as an Air Force bombardier in World War II. The books he wrote include Something Happened, Good as Gold, Picture This, God Knows, and Closing Time, but his first novel, Catch-22, remains his most famous and acclaimed work. He died of a heart attack in December 1999.

Setting: Historical Information
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Genre
Historical fiction is a novel that the setting starts in the past, usually is based on something that actually happened, like in this book world war 2

Plot Summary
During the second half of World War II, a soldier named Yossarian is stationed with his Air Force squadron on the island of Pianosa, near the Italian coast in the Mediterranean Sea.Catch-22 is a law defined in various ways throughout the novel. First, Yossarian discovers that it is possible to be discharged from military service because of insanity. Always looking for a way out, Yossarian claims that he is insane, only to find out that by claiming that he is insane he has proved that he is obviously sane, since any sane person would claim that he or she is insane in order to avoid flying bombing missions. later on in the novel Yossarian's good friend Nately dies during a bombing mission. Because of such a close death Yossarian is troubled and refuses to fly any more missions. after getting arrested he flees to neutral Sweden and tries to regain his life.

Characters

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Author's Style
Joseph Heller uses repetition throughout the book. For example the constant using of the word insane.

Setting
the setting is off the coast of Italy on an island called Pianosa.It is at the end of the second world war

Themes

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