Reflection

To anyone who likes novels that talk about people rather than an actually story will like Catch-22 because this is not like your typical war novel, this is a story of a group of men trying to survive the casualties of war on and off the battlefield. Each character has their own chapter and in each chapter we are given a little backstory on these characters, with that you begin to see them more like people rather words on a page. You feel like you know them, it creates more investment into the characters and the book. I found myself many times when I couldn’t put the book down because I wanted to see what happened or what caused the characters to be a certain way.

This novel talks bout war from a different aspect and rather talking about then fighting and the war itself, it talks to you about the people and you get to know the stories of people fighting on the front lines, some of these people never get there stories told. But Heller has done a fantastic job of creating an interesting and real story without having to talk about the war itself but rather the people fighting in the war. Most of the book doesn’t even talk about fighting or a mission and to most that would make the book seem boring because I believe that this book has no real story arc, it doesn’t follow the plot diagram. But the stories you hear of the people and the passion Heller has for what he is writing trumps all of that, hands down.