“Looking back at Catch-22” In Catch-22, Heller portrays all soldiers as hesitant to serve and brutalized and degraded through war, depicting no moral right or patriotism among its characters. Many view this skewed portrayal of war as the novel’s greatest weakness. Heller was inspired to become a writer after reading Homer’s Iliad as a boy. The ancient story’s depiction of battle’s horrors and the triviality of human issues greatly shaped how Heller would write; he mentions little of valor
Mostly to the people that read his poems. On May 22, 1967 Hughes died from medical complications associated with prostate cancer in New York City. In memory of Hughes, the New York residence was given landmark status to rename 20 East 127th street to “Langston Hughes Place” (Poetry Foundation). In addition
1) I chose boots as a central item of clothing. Boots, in the context of war, are common. They unify all military men and represent a stereotype of power. Power, however, leads to stratification thus diminishing this unity. Men of all ranks march heavy and project their overactive sense of pride yet the boots worn by men so similar may represent vastly different authority levels. To clarify, authority itself is not an issue. It is the underlying hypocrisy and absurdity and ultimately, blind jingoism