Catch 22 Reader Response
Catch-22
The Reader's Response
By: John O'dea
I have chosen a reader response criticism for Catch-22, because I believe it gives me the freedom to interpret, and explore the book on the freest and most personal grounds. It gives me the opportunity to look inward and contemplate the thought provoking scenes occurrences in Catch-22 on my own terms, and then allows me to relate these findings to fellow peers and readers. A reader response criticism complies with my beliefs of Literature, in that everyone who reads a book comes from a figuratively different place than any other reader. Since everyone is a unique individual, the impressions, and meanings of passages are to be interpreted by these readers in their own unique and individual …show more content…
Not only do these ideas apply to the war, but can also be extended and applicable to society in general. The Catch-22, fabled phrase for which the book was named for, is key to this part of the plot. Catch-22 is so many things, and nothing all at once. It is an embodiment to a circular thinking, which is present in many places in the book. This thinking pattern is difficult to fully comprehend. It is a chaotic, turn of consciousness, when the effect of the cause nullifies the cause in the first place. One example is that Orr believes Appleby's got flies in his eyes. "Because he's got flies in his eyes How can he see he's got flies in his eyes, if he's got flies in his eyes (Heller p.46)." This is used to further explain the Catch-22 introduced just before. This sort of weird mind trick is really the best explanation of Catch-22. It gives an example, as it can't hardly be explained since it ends in the same place it …show more content…
It is what keeps Yossarian in the army all through the book, and in the end it is what is hidden behind as the world descends into the chaos of war. It is an extension of the unnatural stagnation theme. Since it requires these things to go in a circle, then to be mathematical about it, the displacement is zero. If the displacement is zero, it is just like nothing happened at all. Catch-22 is the arm of the unnatural war, that keeps it going and never provides for a stop. IN the army, insane people can get out of military service. When Yossarian talks to the doctor to try to be grounded, he discovers Catch-22. "Sure there's a catch, Catch-22, Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy specified, a concern for ones own safety from real danger is the function of a rational mind (Heller p.47)." Therefore, insane people flying combat missions don't have to, but once they don't want to, they are sane and have
The Reader's Response
By: John O'dea
I have chosen a reader response criticism for Catch-22, because I believe it gives me the freedom to interpret, and explore the book on the freest and most personal grounds. It gives me the opportunity to look inward and contemplate the thought provoking scenes occurrences in Catch-22 on my own terms, and then allows me to relate these findings to fellow peers and readers. A reader response criticism complies with my beliefs of Literature, in that everyone who reads a book comes from a figuratively different place than any other reader. Since everyone is a unique individual, the impressions, and meanings of passages are to be interpreted by these readers in their own unique and individual …show more content…
Not only do these ideas apply to the war, but can also be extended and applicable to society in general. The Catch-22, fabled phrase for which the book was named for, is key to this part of the plot. Catch-22 is so many things, and nothing all at once. It is an embodiment to a circular thinking, which is present in many places in the book. This thinking pattern is difficult to fully comprehend. It is a chaotic, turn of consciousness, when the effect of the cause nullifies the cause in the first place. One example is that Orr believes Appleby's got flies in his eyes. "Because he's got flies in his eyes How can he see he's got flies in his eyes, if he's got flies in his eyes (Heller p.46)." This is used to further explain the Catch-22 introduced just before. This sort of weird mind trick is really the best explanation of Catch-22. It gives an example, as it can't hardly be explained since it ends in the same place it …show more content…
It is what keeps Yossarian in the army all through the book, and in the end it is what is hidden behind as the world descends into the chaos of war. It is an extension of the unnatural stagnation theme. Since it requires these things to go in a circle, then to be mathematical about it, the displacement is zero. If the displacement is zero, it is just like nothing happened at all. Catch-22 is the arm of the unnatural war, that keeps it going and never provides for a stop. IN the army, insane people can get out of military service. When Yossarian talks to the doctor to try to be grounded, he discovers Catch-22. "Sure there's a catch, Catch-22, Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy specified, a concern for ones own safety from real danger is the function of a rational mind (Heller p.47)." Therefore, insane people flying combat missions don't have to, but once they don't want to, they are sane and have