Embedded Files
Some helpful links:
Chronological Timeline (with chapters in red)
Catch-22 Reading Guide Questions (for each chapter)
(Thanks to Ms. Kim Cooney, Chattahoochee High School, Fulton County, GA, for some of these resources.)
Excerpt from the book Why Not Catch 21?: The Stories Behind the Titles by Gary Dexter
Hellerious Biographies
Hellerious Biographies of Summer 2025 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of Fall 2024 Satirists I
Hellerious Biographies of Fall 2024 Satirists II
Hellerious Biographies of Summer 2024 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of Summer 2023 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of Spring 2022 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of Fall 2021 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of Summer 2021 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of Summer 2019 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of Fall 2018 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of Summer 2018 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of Fall 2017 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of Summer 2017 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of Fall 2016 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of Fall 2015 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of Summer 2015 Satirists
Hellerious Biographies of 2013 Satirists
Henry Fonda, Major Major Major Major's doppelgänger.
Mae West, American actress of the 1940's.
B-25 Bombers
THEMES
Doubling (character pairs, "catch-22," the man who saw everything twice)
If the paperwork says it's true, it must be true (the bomb line, the LePage glue gun)
Most people are not good/don't do their jobs (Doc and Chaplain are supposed to help people, but they won't/can't)
No one is actually interested in fighting/winning the war
Fear of Death
Rank and intelligence/power are inversely proportional
Contradictions
Chapter style: beginning with a detailed character description, and then putting that character into humorous situation
Long, adjective-filled sentences for description
Juxtaposition of humor and tragedy
Elements of Humor
Satirizing all aspects of society
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