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“Joseph Heller, who penned “Catch-22,� does not understand anything about the simplicity of writing a novel. This narrative has no plot, and there is very little use of basic literary elements such as symbolism and theme. Frankly, I was appalled with its predictable insipidness.� Thus said noted critic I.M. Dense in his monthly book review. I was distraught when I read this review and took it upon myself to devise my own review of “Catch-22.�
In Dense’s review he states that there is no theme to the story, that it is just a random hodgepodge of words that happened to work well together. He is surely mistaken. One of the more interesting themes of the novel is the Achilles' heel of language. In the first chapter of Catch-22, we see Yossarian deleting words at random from the letters that he is required to censor while he is in the hospital. Initially, this act seems terrible. The letters are the men’s only way of communicating with loved ones at home, and Yossarian......

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