Around the second half of World War II, a brave solider by the name of Yossarian is stationed on the island of Pianosa with his equally as brave Air Force squadron. Pianosa is a very small island, near the coast if Italy. Yossarian and his friends were considered almost inhuman and were treated horribly by their superior officers who thought only of their own ambitions.
Yossarian’s squadron is thrown into extremely brutal combat and bombing runs for seemingly no other reason than to take actual pictures of the explosions. The squadron is required to fly more and more of these very dangerous missions, no one is ever sent home, and Yossarian insists than millions of people are trying to kill him.
The people on the island all think that Yossarian…show more content… When Col. Clevenger approaches Yossarian about winning the war and just the whole battle itself Yossarian then says "Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."(Joseph Heller Chapter 12, pg. 133-134); but his will to live is stronger than anyone else could understand, especially to someone like Clevenger.
Catch 22 shows the governments hold on the people it controls that fear of government creates a catch 22. Heller’s opinion is that basic human rights which are given by the government and can be taken away at any time be used against the established order. Yossarian finds at the end, the true nature behind catch 22, was he was too good to be true.
Catch-22 represents the government’s never ending grip on the necks of the individuals it demand to control. Fear of Bureaucracy created the belief that in Catch-22, even its immorality it continually enforce by injustice. Heller offers an opinion that all the basic human rights which are allowed and privileged by the Government for the people and therefore could be taken away by Bureaucrats at any moment, and then used against the established order; even if the new order created chaos. In the end Yossarian eventually discovered the true nature behind his Catch-22, a Bureaucracy's wild
