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" In order to be grounded you must be crazy, but if you ask to be grounded, you must not be crazy anymore, so you have to continue flying"(Heller 40). This is the justification of what a catch-22 is. Insane behavior and the fight for freedom are both acts, which transpire in Catch 22. Yossarian, a squadron captain is in World War II flying a plane and fighting for his country. Though trying to get out, he knows there is only one way, and that would only get him "away" from all of the terror. This brings the reader to the theme of the play, escape. "Insanity is the only sane way to deal with an insane situation"(Heller 78). Joseph Heller's Catch-22 explains an insight of which a paradox providing no way out of conflict is overcome and in the end, defeated.

Throughout the novel several passages express the idea of escape and the eagerness to do so. With almost no way to get out of the war completely, Yossarian knew of a temporary way out. Pretending he still had liver......

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