Catch22

=**Catch 22** = Week 1 (2/26/10): Kelsey: questions Katie: food Hans: summary of meeting Jessi: character summary **
 * 

Questions (Kelsey): 1. What made Yossarian have flashbacks, what made them so significant? Everything that he experienced in the hospital related to things that happened in the war.

2. What was irony of how the generals and troops thought about their duty at war? The generals were only in it for the money and the troops only did it for the titles.

3. Why does Yossarian and his hospital mates hate the Texan? They hate the Texan because he is so likable.

4. What is so ironic of Catch-22? You are damned if you do and damned if you don't which mean what ever you do you end up in a bad situation. For instance, if you don't want to fly in a shooting mission you are asked to and called sane, but if you say you do, you aren't, but you are still asked to.

5. Why does Yossarian refuse to eat fruit? If he eats fruit he will get better and go back to the war, but he doesn't want to.

1. On your group's wiki page, describe the main characters in your text. What makes them interesting? What is their story or background? Why are you drawn to them? Conversely, are there any characters that you just cannot stand? Why not? One of the main characters are Yossarian. He is the protagonist of the book and is captain of the Air Force, however, he hates war. He believes that everyone is trying to kill him because everyone is shooting at him. Clevinger is another main character. He is a member of Yossarian's squadron. Lieutenant Scheisskopf is the general who helps to train Yossarian's squadron in America. He has a passion for military parades and his name is German for "shithead".

Our first meeting was pretty good. Katie brought in drinks, brownies, and goldfish for everyone and we ate at the beginning of the period. While we ate, we all started to discuss how confusing this book was. Although most of us read, it seemed that our most helpful source of information was sparknotes to better understand what Joseph Heller was trying to say. Kelsey then read her questions and we all answered them. Jessi did her character summary toward the end of the period. Although this book is really hard to understand, we will do our best to stay with it and learn the lessons it contains.

Hans-Questions Kelsey-Summary of the Book Katie- Summary of the Meeting Jessi- Food**
 * Week 2 (3/5/10)

Questions (Hans)

1. What characteristics do "crazy" characters have? He believes that everyone is out to kill him, when he is in a shooting mission, in the army.

2. Is madness normal or an exception during the war? Madness can be normal in war because without madness, nothing would drive the people to do near death experiences.

3. Is there any system of justice in the book? There is no system of justice in the book because there are ironic theories which make people do insane missions, with no say and officers who follow these ironic theories to get paid.

4. Are good characters rewarded while evil ones are punished? That is not the case in this book because the generals, who are seen as the evil ones get praised and are awarded medals, ehile the soldiers, the good ones, are often killed or not recognized.

5. Define the logic of Catch-22. Catch 22 is an ironic law which says that if you say that you don't want to do a mission because it is insane, you are sane and must do it, but if you want to do it, you are called insane, and are taken out of the mission.

Summary of the meeting (katie): This week for book club Jessi brought in cookies, Kelsey did summary of the book, and Hans did questions. We discussed how confusing this book is. To help us understand better, we read spark notes. We all helped Hans make up the questions which helped us figure out what was going on and it made for a better discussion.

Summary of the Book (Kelsey): On your group's wiki page, discuss the type of language that your book contains. Is it easy to read? Conversational? "Classic"? Does it use a lot of words you don't understand? What grade level do you think the book is written at, and why? While reading this book I have noticed that it uses many "military" words, which many of us do not understand. Most of them we are able to decode, but many we have to relate to the text or research it. Overall it is easy to read, except for, in the beginning of the book it changed from present time to flashbacks, which threw us off. The writing style is more classical with the standard dialog and 3rd person writing. This book is written for an adult age because of the extent vocabulary and detail.

Hans-summary of the book K****elsey-food Katie-Summary of the Meeting Jessi- questions **
 * Week 3: 3/12/10

1. Why was Yossarian naked at his medal ceremony? Snowden got blown up and the blood got on Yossarian’s uniform.

2. How does Snowden die? He gets hit by the shrapnel (the shell that flies off in an explosion)

3. Which publication does Hungry Joe take photographs for before the war? Life

4. Who does Yossarian pretend to be in the hospital? A dying soldier of a family who comes to visit

5. What do Yossarian’s roommates do with the dead soldiers stuff? They throw it out the window

What is the overriding emotion of this book? What examples back up your claim? Humorous and chaotic. An example of this is when they use major major major major. Chatoic is when examplefied the generals and colonels don't care about the people in the missions, they just care about winning and getting good ratings.

summary of the meeting: ( katie ) Today Kelsey brought in munchkins and capri suns. We disscussed what was going on, and we read spark notes to understand the story so far better. We all find this book confusing but very good and intreaging. Hans was summary of the book and Jessi was questions. We all work together very well to get our work done. This book club the third time around is the most enjoyable because we all know what the jobs require and what it takes to read officiently and get the most out of every friday. Our 3rd marking period is almost coming to an end and we only have a few more book clubs left.

**Week 4 (3/19/10)** Katie: Questions Hans: food Jessi: Summary of Meeting
 * Kelsey: Summary of Book

** questions: (katie)

1)Even though Yossarian pleads incanity,why must he still fly in the mission? Yossarian must still fly because since he is insane he has to fly. Which is the reason why the book is called catch 22. Either way they still have to fly.

2)Why does Yossarian want Dobbs to kill Colonel Cathcart? Because Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the missions so that the people can't go home.

3)If you were Colonel Scheisskopf would you still take the move even if you couldnt bring your loved ones with you? No, because the most important reason you got a job was to support your family.

4)Why does Yossarian want to kill Mc Watt? Because Mc Watt kept doing dangerous stunts and almost killed everyone.

5)Why were the number of mission they were required to fly increase? Because Mc Watt got lost. He crashed the plane and no one could find them.

Summary of the Book (Kelsey) What are some of the images that are used? What do they seem to represent? Why do you think the author uses these images to convey his or her meaning? The images that the author portrays are gloomy and cynical humor. There are many threats of death and devious plans to murder General McWatt. There are a lot of jokes of death and how many of the characters wish to die rather than continue their missions.This gives the reader horrible images in their head of what war is really like. The author uses their tactics to convey the message that war is not only gloomy and dark, it turns many people insane. He uses these images to show the negative side of war.

summary of the meeting (Jessi) At first we ate some food and had some drinks. But later in the period we took out our books and Katie asked us her questions. We all helped her out and attempted to answer them. Then Kelsey did the summary of the book. After everyone was done on the wiki, we talked about the book because it is very confusing. We discussed the main points and everything that has happened so far. Talking to everyone else really helped clear up some of the parts that we didn't understand at first.

Katie: food Hans:summary of the meeting Jessi:Summary of Book**
 * Kelsey:questions

On your group's wiki page, discuss your final reflections on this book. Would you recommend it to peers? Why or why not? Has this topic been discussed more/less effectively in another book or books? Should this book be considered for the school's curriculum?

This book wasn't bad but it wasn't that great. Our group didn't really like the book because it was a little bit confusing and challenging. I wouldn't recommend it to peers because i don't think they would enjoy it very much, they would rather read something lighter and a different topic. This topic has been discussed in many books, there are plenty of books out there that have to do with the war. This book shouldn't be considered for school curriculum because most students wouldn't like it.

Questions: (Kelsey) 1. Why did Natley's whore try to stab Yossarian? Natley's whore tried to stab Yossarian because he told her that Natley had died in battle. 2. What was so significant of Orr washing up on the shores of Sweden? This meant that the number of missions could go down, because they were raised because he went missing. 3. Why doesn't Yossarian take the Colonel's first deal? He thought it wouldn't't be fair to his friends. 4. Why does Yossarian break Nately's nose? He breaks his nose because on thanksgiving night men came with machine guns and tried to make a lot of noise, Yossiarian went out to kill them and Natley tried to stop him, and Yossarian broke his nose. 5. What was the cause of the priest's conviction? Forgery of names and trying to take away authority of a general.

This week's book club went very well. Katie brought in her chocolate chip cookies, popcorn and drinks. We also got a couple fruit roll ups and munchkins. After we ate, Kelsey made her questions and then Jessi typed up the summary of the book. We discussed the ending of the book and tied up all the loose ends. It turned out that Yossarian fled to Sweden to escape from flying the plane in the war. This book was very confusing but in the end the message it sent was very useful and taught us all a lesson in life. War kinda sucks.