Yossarian gets shot
Yossarian was flying a mission like he has about fifty times before. But this time was different; they flew into antiaircraft fire while trying to bomb the guns firing at them, Yossarian all of a sudden feels something we covering his uniform. He looks down and sees blood, he had been shot by one of the guns down on land, he has never been shot before, he tries to get help from his pilot shouting at him, ” ‘ Aarfy, help me, ‘ he pleaded, almost weeping. ‘I’m hit! I’m hit’ “(Heller 289)! Aarfy doesn’t like Yossarian so every time Yossarian tires to tell Aarfy something he pretends that he doesn’t hear him. “Aarfy grinned again and shrugged amiably. ‘I can’t hear you,’ he said”(Heller 289). He tries and tries to get Aarfy to help him but it is fruitless because Aarfy just leaves him to die, Yossarian passes out from blood loss before they get back yo camp.
When Yossarian wakes up he is getting his leg stitched up by McWatt before taking him to the medical tent. Everyone wasn’t sure that Yossarian was conscious or even going to make it because he had lost so much blood. Nately was the most upset about Yossarian getting hurt because he felt the closet to him. “Nately’s at the controls. The poor kid almost started bawling when he heard you were hit. He still thinks you’re dead”(Heller 290). After this Yossarian actually get sent to the hospital for a legitimate reason, he still tries to mess around and do stupid things in the hospital, like trading places with other patients in the hospital to mess with the nurses. Him and Dunbar are messing with Nurse Duckett and actually being really disrespectful by groping her and tossing her between the two men. Yossarian said he is trying to “help her out” and also satiate his own wants and needs.
Yossarian gets sent to the hospital therapist about dreams that he has been having, which are actually Dunbar’s dreams. As he talks to the therapist he soon being to realize that if he comes up with some crazy, messed up enough dreams that he might get to go home. So he asked around for the weirdest, craziest, and most disturbing dreams from all the other patients to try and get grounded. Yossarian and Major Sanderson, the therapist, get into a huge fight about who Yossarian “thinks” he is because Sanderson believes he is someone else because of when he decided to switch hospital beds with someone else. ” ‘ I’m not Fortiori, sir, ‘he said timidly. ‘I’m Yossarian’ “(Heller 298). they continue to argue about this and once Yossarian tells Sanderson that the dreams aren’t his but instead they are Dunbar’s it get even worse. To the point to where the therapist thinks that Yossarian has a split personality ” ‘ It’s not the dream, Dunbar,’ Yossarian explained. ‘ He likes your dream. It’s my personality. He thinks it’s split’ “(Heller 302). With this Yossarian thinks he will be grounded because he is being classified as crazy by a “doctor” , he is beyond excited abut the idea of going home only to find himself back o the battlefield once he fells better.
He talks to Doc Deenka, who is worried about the fact tat the Allies are advancing on the Germans. Yossarian is confused by this, until Deenka explains that if they win the war in Germany, they all get sent to the Pacific to fight the Japanese. This even of Yossarian getting shot is critical to the story because, he had yet to be actually injured throughout the book, but wanted the war to be over and to defeat the Germans as soon as possible to go home. But now he finds out that if they win, he ends up fighting somewhere much worse. Now what does he do? Does he try to go back to the hospital again? Does he purposely screw up his missions to not fight the Japanese? Or does he decide the only way to stop the number of missions from raising is to kill Colonel Cathcart?
We All Bleed Red 