Use Of Satire In Catch 22

Catch 22 Joseph Heller’s purpose when writing Catch 22 was to bring to light the events and problems of war, but show them through a satirical and almost comedic point of view. The author wants to show the readers how war truly is, and how the soldiers and other people involved handle it. He uses satire and irony to talk about such deep subjects so the book doesn’t get too dark. The author’s thesis is that wars can corrupt people and make them do things they wouldn’t usually do, and how the soldiers lives are in hands other than their own. Some characters of the book sell things on the black market, showing how little the people who serve our country make. The main character realizes that his commanding officer is a murder, but he doesn’t get arrested. This shows how corrupt the government is, but the author touches these subjects with humour and irony. The author doesn’t allow the book to go without humor, which keeps you intrigued. The characters also face the realization that they are not in control of their own fate, and that the commanding officers are. This brings along a lot conflicts between the soldiers and the officers. …show more content…
The author got an inside look to how things were for soldiers and pilots during the war. I feel like his sources were extremely valuable, because they gave us a deeper connection to the people in the story. If we had not gotten such great detail, I don’t think we would have felt the same about the story. The author of Catch 22 is slightly biased because the story is told from the point of view of a soldier. If it was told from the point of view from an officer, it would not have dug so deep into the problem of government corruption. The author showed us how life was for a specific kind of person in the war and mainly focused on them. It did not show the points of view of everyone in the