Catch-22

Setting: WW2 Era Italy

Base Camp (Pionosa)

Aircraft

Rome

Hospital

Tents

Major Major's Quarters

Kitchen

Cockpit

Hub

Hold

Captain's Apartments

Bar

Restaurant

Characters

Yossarian:Main Character

Aarfy

Hungry Joe

Capt. Black

Orr

Doc Daneeka

Major Major Major Major

Lucianna

Nately

Milo

Chaplain

Dunbar

Mcwatt

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Mother dies(Miss Major)

Father Names him Major Major

Enlists and enjoys being with friends and playing basketball

Gets Promoted to Major due to name father gave him

Friends do not Appreciate him

Gets bullied for rise in rank

Isolates self in quarters

Arranges appointments for when he leaves so that no one can talk to him

The man to answer your questions

Colonel Cathcart

Colonel Korn

Understands catch-22

Owned pharmacy back home

Keeps flying risky missions

Considered insane

Continuous close calls and crashes

Yossarian's tent mate

Does not bother Yossarian

Photographer for life

Constant Nightmares

Perv and ladies man

Wakes base camp with screams

Uses Photography and camera to take pictures of girls and sell them in the city

Fears for his life

Strong;Ladies Man

Constantly in Hospital

Hospital is Sanctuary

Liver problem allows him to visit anytime

Flies every mission against his will

Bombardier

Always gets close but can never go home

Catch-22 keeps him flying

Promoted to Capt. for 2 bombing runs on a bridge

Commanding rank of plan

Turns plane around for better microphone

Is hated by capt. Black

Buys the same girl every visit to Rome

Capt. Black buys Nately's girl to smite him

Does not fit in with the company

Navigator in Yossarian's plane

Stupid, foolish

Puts Yossarian in jeopardy due to ignorance

Knows where to draw the line

Respects nice girls and not mean girls

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Girl attracted to Yossarian

Mother does not like enlisted men

Makes Yossarian earn his time with her

Understands that he will leave her and never meet again

Volunteer mess officer

Understands a way to buy eggs for 7 cents and sell at 5 cents for profit

Makes profit in black market

Buys and sells from auctions as political leader

Sells fruits and cotton in black market

Head of Base camp

Control Freak

Holds self presumed court

Discovers Major Major's multiple Identities

Blames Nately for anything he can

Creates Loyalty Pledges due to fear of infiltration

Must sign a pledge to come, go, fly, eat, and etc.

Spreads through other camps

Promotes Yossarian for two bombing runs because demoting him would bring bad rep

Genre

Comical

Adventure

Suspense

Many trips over oceans and cities

Visits Captured cities and spend the night on the town

Interactions among friends and enemies around the camps

Good times and bad

Meet and interact with girls, drink at bars or steal capt.'s cars

Flying planes through flak and sunsets

Crude army behavior

Chasing girls

Rhetorical quips

Catch-22

Drinking and Bashing

Stealing Capt.'s cars

Ladies men

Acting stupid

Pushing limits

Flak cannons fired at planes

Death of Friends

Theme

Catch-22

Cherish life

Constantly Gives Yossarian advice

No way out

Pomp and Patriotism

Head of Company

Increases flights to go home

Puts each soldier into catch-22

Scared of authority

Overall plan to escape the clutches of the army

Lt. Scheisskopf

Training unit commander

Dislikes Clevinger

Clevinger is a wise guy

Enjoys war parades

Applies this to war as long as he wins

Same attitude as Yossarian

Goal is to prolong life

Right hand to Cathcart

Wants to climb rank

Intellectual

Mastermind

Stays under Cathcart so Cathcart takes the blame

Friends with Yossarian

Sane

Kills Kid Sampson

Commits suicide in plane

Yossarians Pilot

Flies low to scare Yossarian

War is crazy

Thin balance between Saving your life or fighting for your country

War is Harsh

Saving yourself

Fight for your country

Some enjoy war

Some fear they are not fit for war and leads to there ultimate end

The endless paradox of war

Each country fights for what they beleive

Killing is justified by beleifs

No escape

Flying is sane

Refusing to fly is insane

Refusing to fly is the most sane choice

Yossarian's

Hungry Joe'z

Dobbs

Yossarian's plane co-pilot

Very bad pilot

Huple

15 year old pilot

better pilot than Dobbs

Syndicate leader

Has political position in every town

Gives Yossarian fruits anytime for his liver

Overhanging eminence of death in a war with no end

Yossarian fears death and understands it surrounds him

The human nature to improve and better other humans