The novel, Catch-22, is a comedy about soldiers during World War II.
             However, this comic scenes and phrases are quite tragic when they are
             thought about, as most things related to war are, which makes this
             comedy completely absurd. The best way to represent this idea is
             through the characters in the book, specifically, Yossarian, Huple, and
             Nately's whore's kid sister and the events that occur with their
             Clearly, the main character and one whose life is chiefly
             described, is Yossarian. Yossarian has a slightly sick sense of humor
             and way of looking at things. In the first chapter, Heller tells us
             that letters sent by the soldiers had to be reviewed in order to prevent
             any secret information going out to the public, or, even worse, to the
             enemy. Yossarian, from lack of anything better to do, censors all the
             letters. Sometimes he crosses out everything but a, an and the,
             sometimes adjectives, whatever he feels like that day. For his final
             gag he signs these letters as Washington Irving to totally confuse the
             readers of these letters. This is funny, however it is ultimately
             tragic. These are the letters that every wife, mother and daughter runs
             to the mailbox for in order to see that their husbands, fathers and sons
             are all right. This is a letter that could say: "Honey, I'm coming
             home", or "I love you. When I come home I want to marry you." These
             letters could change the whole lifestyle of so many people and
             Yossarian alone is tampering with them. The absurdity of that is
             A gag of slightly higher consequence occurred in Chapter 12, when
             Yossarian decided to move the bomb line over Bologna. What I believe is
             the most ridiculous in the whole process was his reason for doing it.
             Everyone did not want to go on this mission to capture Bologna. They
             prayed the rain would never go away, or that the bomb line would
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