In this quote Clevinger is being put on trial by his superiors for something that he did not even do. Most of the people he knows do not like him. After everything is over, Lieutenant Scheissopf and two other men convict of this crime because they do not like him and sentence him to punishment duty. This quote is important because it makes the reader realize the irony in this story, all the people that Clevinger is trying to kill do not even know him and do not hate him, however the people who he lives with who are on his own team do hate him. I think by doing this the author made a very interesting point, because many soldiers who fight did so because they had to. Many characters in this novel do not understand why they are killing the enemy when they do not even know that individual who could just be in their position because they were forced to be in it. For all they know, if they met their enemy outside of the war they may become friends. Well this book is still very interesting and I can hardly put it down as I get near the end.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Catch-22 (post four)
"These three men who hated (Clevinger) spoke his language and wore his uniform, but saw their loveless faces set to immutably into cramped, mean lines of hostility and understood instantly that nowhere in the world, not in all the facists tanks, planes or submarines, not in the bunker behind the machine guns or motors behind the blowing flame throwers, not even the expert gunners of the crack Hermann Goering Antiaircraft division or among all the grisly connivers in all the beer halls in Munich and everywhere else, were there men who hated him more."
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Josh sounds like a great book. The irony in that is pretty weird. What is he being put on trial for? Also why don't his own people like him? I really liked the quote you picked it was really in depth. Please tell me how the book ends I am really anxious to know.
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