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	Catch-22 Study Guide
		Yossarian's main antagonist is Colonel Cathcart, whose goal in life is to become a general.
		Yossarian wants to stop flying missions so he does not get killed, yet Cathcart's aim is to continue raising the number of required missions in order to impress his superiors.
		Yossarian broke the news to her, and the novel concludes with Nately's whore trying to kill Yossarian in violent rage.
	www.bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us /catch22.html (1434 words)

	Yossarian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Captain John Yossarian is the 28-year-old protagonist of the 1961 novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
		Yossarian is also haunted by memories of the final moments of Snowden, one of his crew.
		Yossarian cannot betray the members of his squadron who are still on the island, nor those that have died as a result of Cathcart's despicable self-serving missions policy, so decides that he will run for freedom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yossarian (1460 words)

	Catch-22 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Most events in the book occur while the airmen of the Fighting 256th (or "two to the fighting eighth power") Squadron are based on the island of Pianosa, west of Italy.
		Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
		Yossarian comes to realize that Catch-22 doesn't actually exist, but that because the powers that be claim it does and the world believes that it does, it nevertheless has potent effects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catch-22 (940 words)

	Websiting Megan's Writing - Yossarian's Escape
		Yossarian in particular is bothered by this threat, fearing death so much that he will do almost anything to avoid flying combat missions.
		It is not until Yossarian is forced to confront his threat of death by being forced to literally run from it and then eventually being stabbed that he finally accepts death’s inevitability and begins refining his corrupt practices which bound him to samsara.
		Yossarian’s terror that he will someday die demonstrates two of the five skandhas: the physical body, and pleasant, unpleasant and neutral feelings and their connection to ideas (Boeree).
	filebox.vt.edu /users/merowe/yossarian1.htm (588 words)

	PlanetPapers - Yossarian
		When Yossarian is wounded in the leg and interviewed by a psychiatrist, the psychiatrist believes Yossarian to be crazy because the official medical records list him as a soldier named “A. Fortiori,” who is in the hospital for a stone in his salivary gland.
		However, when Yossarian is finally offered the choice of his own safety at the expense of the rest of his squadron, he is unable to choose himself over his friends.
		Yossarian’s concern for others confuses the straightforward common sense of self-preservation, and creates its own Catch-22: life isn’t worth living without a concern for the welfare of others, but a concern for the well being of others endangers one’s life (Sparknotes).
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/6205.php (1165 words)

	Websiting Megan's Writing - Yossarian's Escape
		She and her kid sister become determined to kill him and suddenly the threat of death is literally right in Yossarian’s face as they chase him through her apartment with potato peelers and bread knives (404).
		This is painfully evident in Rome, where Yossarian sees the whore’s bombed home and learns from an old woman who lost her husband that all the girls who lived there were chased away by soldiers, and later sees a dog and a child being beaten and onlookers doing little to stop it (Heller 416-425).
		Yossarian is at first a little reluctant to do this, realizing that for all the missions he will not have to fly, the other men will have to fly more.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/merowe/yossarian4.htm (753 words)

	Yossarian lives --'cause there's only one catch (Stacey's blog)
		I think the panicked little figure looking skyward is Yossarian -- the story's protagonist and anti-hero, and a World War II bombardier stationed on the fictional island of Pianosa, west of Italy -- a man who desperately wants to live, especially because thousands of people he's never even met are trying to kill him.
		Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
		It turns out that Yossarian has a secret, too, and the secret is that the death of a member of his flight crew is what's made him so desperate to get out of the war.
	www.vcreporter.com /Staceyblog/2006/10/yossarian_lives_--cause_theres_only_one_catch.html (1799 words)

	Catch-22 - Free Catch-22 Essays: The Character of Yossarian
		Yossarian's commanding officer, Colonel Cathcart, wanted a promotion so badly that he kept raising the number of missions the men in his squadron were required to fight.
		Yossarian resented this very much, but he couldn't do anything about it because a bureaucratic trap, known as catch-22, said that the men did not have the right to go home after they completed forty missions (the number of missions the Army demands they fly) because they had to obey their commanding officers.
		Yossarian can be seen as a new kind of hero because he acted upon the corruption he saw in the military system, which few people would have the guts to do, even today.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=9421 (831 words)

	Yossarian (In-Depth Analysis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		John Yossarian, the protagonist of Catch-22, is both a member of the squadron’s community and alienated by it.
		Unlike a conventional hero, however, Yossarian does not generalize this idea to mean that he should risk his own life in attempts to save everybody else’s.
		Yossarian ultimately escapes this conundrum by literally walking away from the war—an action that refuses both the possibility of becoming an officer who avoids danger at the expense of his troops and that of remaining a soldier who risks his life for meaningless reasons.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/catch22/terms/charanal_1.html (418 words)

	Satire and Dark Humor: Sample Papers
		Yossarian observes that recycling of the fluid suggests that there may or may not be a man encased in that plaster shell.
		Yossarian and Dunbar argue over the existence of an actual soldier within, and many of the hospital workers regard the absurd constant polishing of his intravenous tubes as a chore.
		By the time Yossarian's new roommates dispose of Mudd's belongings, Yossarian has made an emotional connection with the dead man's belongings; his monument is gone, and remnants of a formerly sane life with it.
	www.majorweather.com /mudd/satire/mattozp.htm (1751 words)

	Yossarian's Diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Yossarian and the other judges met to decide the winner and, much as I'd like to pretend there was a huge row which ended with Mark Billingham trading punches with all and sundry, the decision was almost unanimous.
		Yossarian has been around for most of the life of this fine company, and this column was born with our website, back in the heady dotcom delirium of the late 1990s.
		Yossarian would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who has read the column.
	www.ottakars.co.uk /Internet/yossarian/default.jsp (652 words)

	Catch-22 (1970) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		During one part of the story, Yossarian, the lead bombardier, finds out that they are going to bomb an Italian village that has no stragetic interest to the US war effort.
		His Colonels dissuade him from doing this, give Yossarian a medal and promote him to avoid the negative publicity which would happen if this information got the press.
		Yossarian is the anti-hero who goes through many adventures that young people should see before entering service.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0065528 (540 words)

	SparkNotes: Catch-22: Themes, Motifs & Symbols
		Yossarian has experienced so many terrible things that he cannot believe in a God who would create such a wide array of options when it comes to pain and death.
		Furthermore, Yossarian is always visualizing his own death and is absolutely flabbergasted by the total number of ways in which it is possible for a human being to die.
		But Yossarian’s awareness of the inevitability of death is not entirely negative: it gives him a sense of how precious life is, after all, and he vows to live for as long as possible.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/catch22/themes.html (1512 words)

	WowEssays.com - Catch 22
		Yossarian's reaction, in which he makes a conscious decision to stop participating, leads to the accusation that '...the men were perfectly content to fly as many missions as we asked as long as they thought they had no alternative.
		Yossarian's role as hero is ultimately opposed by his role of withdrawal from the heroic scene after much change in values and perspectives.
		It is in the self-exploration and the absurd, often immoral values that surround him that Yossarian achieves his main role of hero.However, by resorting to trying to escape after much change in values in perspective, Yossarian, in the process of doing so, sheds his claim to the heroic role.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ac2/wuj87.shtml (1078 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Catch-22 Study Guide - Character List
		Yossarian tries to get the officers, to no avail, and bemoans the wrongful, immediate death he suffered.
		Yossarian suspects of her of having killed the soldier in white, because she is the one who discovers that he has died.
		When Yossarian hits Nately in the nose and then breaks to her the news of Nately's death, she becomes extremely vindictive, doggedly follows him from Rome back to his camp, and tries to kill him with a butcher knife.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/catch/charlist.html (2295 words)

	Welcome to Waterstones.com
		Ishbel was very much thrown in at the deep end when her father was elected, and the fact that they moved into the upper echelons of society while coming from a relatively poor background, should make for a fascinating book.
		Of course, what Yossarian really wants to read is a history of the gloriously silly feud between rival Betjeman biographers, AN Wilson and Bevis Hillier.
		Yossarian notes the story in the papers claiming that men cannot write romances.
	www.waterstones.com /waterstonesweb/navigate.do?pPageID=1062 (772 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Catch-22 Study Guide - Short Summary
		Nevertheless, shortly afterwards, Yossarian breaks the terrible news of Nately's death, and she doggedly follows him from Rome back to the camp, trying to kill him with a knife.
		Yossarian continuously opposes the war and Colonel Cathcart's constant increase of the number of missions that are required to be able to take a leave.
		Yossarian protests against such wrongful accusations, but the officers claim they are justified in jailing an innocent man to keep the war effort going.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/catch/shortsumm.html (1416 words)

	Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
		Yossarian staggered up to his feet not a moment too soon, for she came charging back in from the kitchen carrying a long bread knife.
		Yossarian, astounded, hauled her up into the plane and held her motionless on the floor in a double armlock while Hungry Joe radioed the control tower for permission to return to Rome.
		Yossarian was positive that he was at last rid of her and was relieved.
	www.generationterrorists.com /quotes/catch-22.shtml (15919 words)

	A brief tribute to Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22
		The novel focuses on a bombardier named Yossarian who, after flying 60-some bombing missions, is sick of the war and afraid of death, and desperately wants to go home.
		There is a set number of missions required before discharge, but every time Yossarian comes close to completing his duty, the number is raised, and he has to fly again.
		Yossarian wants to get out of the absurd situation in which he finds himself, but he can't.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/jan2000/hel-j06.shtml (1732 words)

	How old can they get? - Ultimate Limits
		After his gauntlet, Magus Yossarian wholly neglects the twelve Arts irrelevant to his quest, learning few Spells (only those he needs to study the Tractatus on them), and probably never casting any.
		Note that for the final five years, Yossarian is not immune to ageing and has a 10% chance per year of an Annoying Afflication.
		[1]: Yossarian is the main character in Joseph Heller's Catch-22, who "had decided to live forever or die in the attempt..." (chapter 3).
	www.quantal.demon.co.uk /saga/ooc/yossarian.html (1201 words)

	Free Barron's BookNotes for Catch-22 - The Story-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes from PinkMonkey.com
		Yossarian himself considers bizarre behavior a sensible response to the craziness of war.
		Yossarian puts the same question into French, neatly echoing a line by Villon, "Mais ou sont les Neiges d'antan?" ("But where are the snows of yesteryear?") Francois Villon (1431-1463?) was a thief, vagabond, and rebel, as famous in France as Robin Hood in England.
		Yossarian always sends his navigator, Aarfy, back to the pilots' compartment as soon as the objective is sighted, so he and Aarfy won't be in each other's way.
	pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/barrons/catch223.asp (6991 words)

	David Stroup: Yossarian and more
		Yossarian is the on-going saga of Irving Yossarian, his wife Lori, his former college roomie Tom Bedlam and the staff and hangers-on of the Clackamette Preview, the Oregon newspaper where he works.
		The Yossarian created on 6/21/2001 is now up -- updated from the newspaper, if you're reading this and all went well -- and the 6/28 strip is coming.
		I'm not going to start pimping it until next week, so if you've found it early, you're either friend or family, someone who got one of my e-mails and is checking the address in my.sig, or just lucky.
	www.io.com /~dstroup (1443 words)

	Welcome to CampusNut.com -- Message Boards
		Yossarian knows that Colonel Cathcart is trying to kill him every day, but still can’t bring himself to give Dobbs the go-ahead.
		Yossarian is in a moral quandary: if Dobbs had just gone ahead and done it, Yossarian would have been glad; but being asked has put too much responsibility on him.
		Yossarian remarks to himself that Dobbs is as crazy as Hungry Joe, or Orr, who gets hit be anti-aircraft fire on every mission, but somehow survives.
	www.campusnut.com /book.cfm?article_id=600§ion=18 (413 words)

	David Stroup's Comics
		Yossarian: Escape from the Lost Survivors of Castaway Island
		A college strip from the Yossarian archives -- Yos and dorm-mate Tom Bedlam discover the perils of eugenics...
		In an adventure from his college days (and the college run of the strip), Yossarian and his then-girlfriend visit an oddly familiar island.
	webcomicsnation.com /dstroup (155 words)

	eightbar » Blog Archive » Yossarian Seattle’s wedding present
		Yossarian Seattle one of eightbar’s prominent builders and scripters will be off the grid for a few weeks as he is getting married today.
		Over at new world notes there is a great article about Yossarian’s language HUD on New World Notes.
		And, Yossarian Seattle (also Rob Smart of Eightbar and creator of the much lauded SL Translator HUD), created the link from MQtt to Second Life so that messages can flow in and out of Second Life.
	eightbar.co.uk /2006/08/25/yossarians-wedding-gift (337 words)

	Welcome to CampusNut.com -- Message Boards
		Yossarian reminds him that Cathcart will undoubtedly raise the number of missions again, but Dobbs refuses to do anything until that happens.
		Yossarian frequently imagines killing his roommate, which helps to ease the insanity.
		He also urges Yossarian to fly with him on some future mission, to which Yossarian strenuously objects, since his roommate is such a magnet for anti-aircraft fire.
	www.campusnut.com /book.cfm?article_id=600§ion=23 (588 words)

	Joseph Heller's 'Closing Time' Review by David Louis Edelman
		The Yossarian we meet in Closing Time has decided, after a lifetime of lifeless copy writing and advertising jobs, to throw ethics to the wind and help old World War II cohort Milo Minderbinder sell his M and M E and A Sub-Supersonic Invisible and Noiseless Defensive Second-Strike Offensive Attack Bomber to the government.
		Yossarian quells his ethical dilemmas by reasoning that a) Milo won't actually build the bomber once he's got the money for it, b) Yossarian will probably be dead before the first plane makes it off the assembly line, and c) Milo's paying him good money.
		Back in the early '60s before civil disobedience became fashionable, the idea of, say, Yossarian sitting naked in a tree during a fellow pilot's funeral was unbelievably caustic and biting.
	www.davidlouisedelman.com /reviews/heller.cfm (801 words)

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