This book takes place towards the end of WWII on Pianosa, an island in the Mediterranean Sea. This is a fictional story about the 256th Bombardier Squadron and what the characters have to go through. Yossarian, the protagonist of the story, feels that he is the only one who realizes that there is a war going on, and he takes it personally and thinks that everyone is trying to kill him. Yossarian and his squadron are constantly being thrown into harm’s way by their leaders who volunteer them to do the difficult missions so that the leaders could look better to their superiors. Yossarian ends up spending a lot of time in the hospital faking illnesses, because his one and only goal is to survive. All the soldiers want to finish their required
