CONTEXT SETTING WHATS THE CATCH THE BOOK MAKING OF A CLASSIC THE GAMECHANGER KNOW THE AUTHOR SNEAK PEEK PLOT CHARACTERS STYLE FROM THE CRITICS LENS OUR EVALUATION CONCLUSION CONNECTING SOME DOTS ID: 775680
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CATCH-22
Book Review
GROUP 10
Slide2CONTEXT SETTING: WHAT’S THE CATCH?
THE BOOK: MAKING OF A CLASSICTHE GAMECHANGER: KNOW THE AUTHORSNEAK PEEK: PLOT – CHARACTERS – STYLEFROM THE CRITIC’S LENS: OUR EVALUATIONCONCLUSION: CONNECTING SOME DOTS!
AGENDA
Slide3THERE’S ONLY ONE CATCH, AND THAT’S CATCH-22
There’s something about this book…
Sold over 10 million copies
11 editions published over last 50 years
Coined a new phrase in the English languageAdaptations: Movie, theatre, TV comedy series
But, that wasn’t all…
Changed the paradigm of war writings: Powerful anti-war message
Challenged the foundations of patriotism and obedience
Reflected the irrationality/insanity of absolute bureaucracy
Represented the new generation losing respect for illogical authority – refusing to take anything at face value
Slide4DOES THAT RING A BELL??
NATIONALISM
WARS
CORRUPTIONNEPOTISMFAVOURITISM
MANIPULATIVE BUREAUCRATIC CONTRADICTIONS
Half century later… Yossarian Lives!
Slide5THE BOOK
MAKING OF A CLASSIC
F
ull title · Catch-22Author · Joseph HellerType of work · NovelGenre · War novel; satire; Black humour, absurdist fiction, satire, war fiction, historical fictionLanguage · EnglishTime and place written · 1955–1961, New YorkDate of first publication · 1961Publisher · Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Slide6HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCEIMPACT OF THE “ANTI-HERO”
1961 was the year when…
Berlin Wall was built
U.S.
ends diplomatic relations with Cuba
WWII, Cold War, and Vietnam War still on everybody’s minds
How
it became one
of the most influential book in modern
literature…
Huge impact on popular culture and literary circles
Introduced
the
post-war
world to the concept of ‘Black Humor’
Gave
the
world its first
true ‘
anti-hero’
Popularity with a strong
cult
following
Slide7THE GAMECHANGER
KNOW THE AUTHOR
Was
in the U.S. Air Force during World War IIWas a fighter pilotWon an Air Medal and a Presidential Unit CitationLeft military in 1945Received his English degree from Columbia University. Then he went to OxfordLater he became an English Professor at Pennsylvania State UniversityWorked for magazines such as Time, Look, and McCall’sDied of a heart attack
JOSEPH
HELLER
(1923-1999)
Slide8SNEAK PEEKTHE PLOT AND STYLE
PLOT
War novel, reflecting the absolute but illogical power of bureaucracy
Set up in an imaginary island,
Pianosa Our protagonist – Captain YossarianConflict – Catch-22Takeaway – “No one can get off the ride”
STYLE
Jumbled chronology
Episodes of memories, flashbacks and character descriptions
Point of view -
focusing mostly on what
Yossarian
does and what
Yossarian
thinks and feels
Tone – Flatly satirical tone
More than 50 characters over 500 pages
Slide9SNEAK PEEK
CHARACTERS
YOSSARIAN
DOC DANEEKA
MILO MINDERBINDER
CHAPLAIN
SNOWDEN
“Rome was destroyed, Greece was destroyed, Persia was destroyed, Spain was destroyed. Why not yours? How much longer. Do you really think your own country will last? Forever? Keep in mind that the earth itself is destined to be destroyed by the sun in the twenty million years or so.”
Slide10FROM THE CRITIC’S LENS
OUR EVALUATION
"
All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives. There was no end in sight.”Grand irony played out in hundred waysA hilarious start turns into a very emotional and thought provoking taleA story filled with paradoxes and dark humourCriticism on bureaucracyThe disenchanting Catch-22!
“Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.”
“
’’
Slide11CONCLUSIONCONNECTING SOME DOTS
As
long as there are borders and nation-states, Yossarian lives!The book delivers to us a cry of rebellion – a war against the war.
Slide12THANK YOU