The Theme Of Catch 22
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The theme of Catch-22 goes beyond its surface message of the absurdity of war. Each of the characters present a certain value or lack of value to teach a lesson that goes deeper than war. These same values are taught in the book of Job. The characters in Catch-22 could benefit from absorbing th ....
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.... was deaf and kept pushing forward, nonviolently but irresistibly, sweating, his eyes, as though he were in the grip of a blind fixation, burning feverishly, and his twitching mouth slavering. He moaned calmly as though in remote instinctive distress and kept repeating ‘Illegal Tobacco, Illegal Tobacco” (Heller 421). This obsession with profit comes up as a major theme throughout the Bible and the book of Job is not an exception. Job’s friends bring up several times that if Job was le ....
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