... if you have not already done so, please read pp. 81-139 by next Wednesday 11/5/08 and answer THREE of the following five questions.
There are many consistent themes running throughout the novel Catch-22, several in the chapters covered this week. For each question below that you select, discuss how that particular theme is exemplified in that chapter and explain the context of meaning behind the provided quotation (as well as who said it and to whom they were speaking).
1.) Chapter Nine
Theme: Appearance vs. Reality
Quotation: "With a little ingenuity and vision, he had made it all but impossible for anyone in the squadron to talk to him, which was just fine with everyone, he noticed, since no one wanted to talk to him anyway."
2.) Chapter Ten
Theme: Isanity as the Sane Choice of Action
Quotation: "There is no light. I don't feel like starting my generator. I used to get a kick out of saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway."
3.) Chapter Eleven
Theme: Hyperbolic Patriotism
Quotation: "The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not."
4.) Chapter Twelve
Theme: Rationality vs. Superstition
Quotation: "The enemy ... is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live."
5.) Chapter Thirteen
Theme: Sense of Guilt
Quotation: "You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail."
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