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3rd block media type="custom" key="22575764" Rationale: Catch-22 is about a soldier who endures countless absurdities by bureaucracy and violence. He is seen as more of a resource and less of a human being by his superiors who only seek to use him to increase their own reputations and salaries. Also, he seems to be the only person that realizes that there is a war going on and he is convinced that millions of people are trying to kill him. In this aspect he is an outlier from the rest of the patients in the hospital and that is why I put the man on the left away from the soldiers in the line because he is representing Yossarian, the protagonist. Also, in the book, the air force officers keep raising the number of missions that the pilots have to fly before they can be discharged. This way nobody can be honorably discharged. I represented this by putting a lot of planes at the top of the poster. Thirdly, I put the entire poster in black and white in order to represent the time period that the book is set in, which is during World War II.

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"Catch-22": Annotated Bibliography
Aldridge, John W. "The Loony Horror of It All - 'Catch-22' Turns 25." //The New York Times//. N.p., 26 Oct. 1986. Web. 26 Mar. 2013.

Catch-22 has a remarkable literary history. It has passed from relatively modest initial success with readers and critics to its current status as a monumental artifact in contemporary American literature. The book was a new kind of comedy that disturbed and subverted before it delighted and was ultimately as deadly in earnest, as savagely bleak and ugly. Ironically, in the same year that Catch-22 was published Philip Roth published an essay titled "Writing American Fiction" in which he expressed his feelings and stated that the American writer "has his hands full in trying to understand, and then describe, and then make credible much of the American reality." He hadn't known of course that the era of writers that he was referring that needed to come, had already started making appearances, such as Joseph Heller. Joseph Heller, as well as many other writers, were seeking to assimilate the difficulties and harshness of the American reality. They achieved this by creating a new kind of fiction which uses black humor, surrealism, and grotesque metaphor to dramatize unreality. Thus, by doing this, it has been revealed that Heller's achievement is far larger than previously thought.

"There's a Catch...Catch-22." //Bukisa//. N.p., 28 Oct. 2010. Web. 26 Mar. 2013.

This article is mainly about the reasons there have been so much controversy surrounding Catch-22 and why some schools and libraries are looking at it the entirely wrong way. A lot of the reasons that the book is being banned are the very same reasons that the book is a loved and cherished piece of literature. A lot of the way the reader views the book depends on the reader's sense of humor. For a lot of people, the book is hilarious for its repetitive, slapstick humor. However, others view it as making fun of the American military and America in general. There are justified reasons for people to want to restrict the book such as objectionable language and profanity. The schools don't want minors to be introduced to this. Much of the opposition to the book resides in the people who find the book unpatriotic and hateful towards the American military. However, the book is written for people who know how to point and laugh at themselves and their country. They aren't so caught up in patriotism and faith that they can't recognize their imperfections. All the book is trying to accomplish is have America point and laugh at itself.

Daugherty, Tracy. "The War for Catch-22." //Vanity Fair//. N.p., Aug. 2011. Web. 26 Mar. 2013.

The idea of Catch-22 had been in Joseph Heller's mind but he never really had an actual story until he had had two separate discussions with two different WWII veterans. One of the vets, shared many entertaining stories while the other couldn't understand how humor could be associated with the horror of war. Joseph Heller also mentions that he couldn't have written Catch-22 without first reading Jaroslav Hasek's unfinished World War I satire, "The Good Soldier Schweik". Heller started writing the first chapter of his book, then called "Catch-18", in 1953 and for the next 8 years he worked on and off the book writing slowly developing the characters more and more while simultaneously working various jobs for magazines. After the book was published, The American Heritage Dictionary defined the term Catch-22 as "a difficult situation or problem whose seemingly alternative solutions are logically invalid.” This term swiftly entered daily conversations worldwide to describe any bureaucratic paradox.This article mainly covers the origins of Catch-22, Joseph Heller's journey of writing the book, and the impact that the book has had on society.

Doyle, Robert P. "Banned And/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century." //American Library Association//. N.p., 2010. Web. 27 Mar. 2013.

This article states the Catch-22 was banned in Strongsville, Ohio in 1972 for its use of objectionable language, however it was overturned in 1976 by a U.S. District Court in Minarcini v. Strongsville City School District. The book was also challenged at the Dallas, TX Independent School District high school libraries in 1974. The book was challenged in Snoqualmie, Washington in 1979 because of its several references to women as "whores".

Stern, Richard G. "Bombers Away." //The New York Times//. N.p., 22 Oct. 1961. Web. 26 Mar. 2013.

This article provides a clear example of the many mixed reviews that Catch-22 received within the first few years of its publishing. The critic says that the book has "much passion, comic, and fervent, but it gasps for want of craft and sensibility." The critic says the book is no novel and is repetitive and monotonous. The book is an emotional hodgepodge; no mood is sustained long enough to register for more than a chapter. The critic describes Joseph Heller as a "brilliant painter who decides to throw all of his ideas in his sketchbooks onto one canvas, relying on their shock and charm to compensate for the lack of design." He suggests that the book is too long and that the cavortings and miseries of an American Bomber squadron are redundant. He also mentions that the book is too short in the aspect that Heller doesn't give the characters enough play to become a controlling interest. Many of these articles were produced during the early years of the book, however as the years will pass people will start to understand how to read it as John Aldridge states in his article, and the book will take off with astonishing success.