Catch-22

During World War II, a soldier named Yossarian is serving at Air Force squadron, near the Italian Coast. Yossarian and his friends think that they are just resources in the eyes of selfish officers. The squadron is sent into brutal combats where it is more important to get nice aerial photographs than to destroy their targets. Their colonels, also, raise up the amount of missions their soldiers have to participate in before they will be send home, so one one is sent home.

Yossarian discovers that is is possible to get out of army because of insanity. He claims that he is insane, however, by claiming himself insane he shows that he is sane because every single sane soldier would claim that he is insane in order to avoid the war.

Catch-22 is a law that is illegal to read, however, the place where it is written that is illegal is in Catch-22 itself. Catch-22 is also defined as a law that an enemy can do anything that one cannot keep him from doing. This novel is a paradox that catches victim in its illogic pattern and slowly hills those who made the law.

Therefore, Catch-22 shows how crazy and destructible wars are by giving its reader an image of all the cruelty. While "Wounded Soldier" by Otto Dix shows just one image of a hurt soldier, the novel shares a story that goes behind all the photos and newspapers.