Captain John Yossarian is the protagonist of the 1961 novel ''Catch-22'' by Joseph Heller. He is a part of the 256th squadron of the Army Air Corps (which later became the US Air Force), where he acts as a bombardier (air force). The character's exploits are based on the experiences of the author: Heller was a bombadier in the Air Corps stationed on an island off the coast of Italy during World War II, and also lost crew members when his plane was attacked on his flight to bomb the city of Avignon. His first name is given in the book version of ''Catch-22'' on page 428. Yossarian is also the protagonist of Catch-22's sequel, ''Closing Time'', which was published in 1994. Although the book describes him as being Assyrian, his name indicates an Armenian (people) background. Throughout the book, Yossarian's main concern is the idea that people are trying to kill him, either directly (by attacking his plane) or indirectly (by forcing him to fly missions). His suspicion becomes full-blown paranoia when he finds that, because of Air Force red tape, he can't leave; he is unable to fly the required number of missions to be discharged from duty because his superiors keep increasing the number of required missions; and he can't get a section 8 (military) by pretending to be insane because his superiors see his wanting to get out of flying as a sign of perfect sanity (hence ''Catch-22''.) Because of this, Yossarian boycotts flying missions as much as possible, either through feigning illness or inventing an excuse to return to base (like a busted radio.) In fact, the book begins with Yossarian staying in the hospital due to a liver condition. Yossarian is also haunted by memories of the final moments of Snowden, one of his crew. Snowden, through his death, showed Yossarian that man is mortal. Because of Snowden's death, Yossarian becomes reluctant to fly missions, as it could ultimately result in his death, as it was with Snowden's. The bulk of ''Catch-22'', concerns Yossarian's relationships with the other soldiers in his squadron, such as the psychosis Hungry Joe, the amateur war profiteering Milo Minderbinder, and the spoiled, idealistic Nately. The book also concerns the efforts of Yossarian's superiors, especially the egomaniacal Colonel Cathcart and the Joseph McCarthy-like careerist Captain Black, to continually up the number of required missions so that no one can be discharged. Whenever on leave, Yossarian and his friends carouse, drink, and sleep around as much as they can, knowing and fearing they could die on any given mission. One of the prostitutes they employ becomes Nately's unofficial girlfriend (she is referred to only as "Nately's Whore") and, when Nately is killed, blames Yossarian for his death and repeatedly tries to kill him. Through a convoluted chain of events, Yossarian earns Cathcart's ire for a smuggling scam that was actually perpetrated by Milo and is threatened with imprisonment. When Yossarian threatens Cathcart with exposing his opportunistic manipulation of missions, however, Cathcart backs down and offers to release him from duty as a reward for not telling anybody. catch-22 Fictional air force personnel
If I recall correctly, isn't Yossarian a bomber pilot (the one who flies the bomber) and not the bombadier (who actually aims and drops the bombs)? --User:Raul654 22:29, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC) :I don't think so...he's always in the back of the plane doing something, as far as I remember. He's definitely never flying though. User:Adam Bishop 22:32, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC) He's definetly the bombardier, Heller mentions he is the lead bombardier and the pilot he flies with is McWatt. You might have gotten confused because he says a few times that hes in the nose of the plane which is the area below the pilots in a little glass dome area. Google B-24 to know what i mean, he was deffinatley bombardier.
Hello fellow Wikipedians (and other stragglers). I'm Yossarian: I started here in May of 2004. As well as being a geek, I'm a hopelessly romantic-pessimism-playwright-poet from the extreme western part of the Great White North. I believe in democratic socialism (or Libertarian socialism, or social democracy and sometimes even socialism) for all...but I'm also ''very'' willing to make fun of it. I take my name from the ultimate anti-hero...and frankly, I'm damn glad I got to it first... ==Major contributions== *Vladimir (character) *Estragon *Pozzo *Lucky (character) *''Godot Arrives'' *''Act Without Words II'' *''Catastrophe (play) *''The Singing Detective'' *Vivian Mercier *PABAAH (says a number, but it was me) *Mechanical (character) (did a lot of revision and corrections) *The template:Beckett (see below) *The template:Shaw (see below) *The template:Pinter (see below) To do: *Pozzo and Lucky I am currently working for user:Ganymead on Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre. I've assigned myself the task of working through each Beckett play to make them into proper articles. ==Interests (in absolutely no particular order)== :Politics: ::*Communism ::*Socialism ::*Liberalism ::*Conservatism ::*Libertarianism ::*Kimilsungism :History: ::*World War I ::*World War II ::*Russian Revolution ::*The Renaissance ::*Christianity ::*Judaism :Literature: ::*Joseph Heller :::*''Catch-22'' ::*Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. :::*''Slaughterhouse-Five'' ::*Robert A. Heinlein ::*Phillip K. Dick ::*Vladimir Nabokov :::*''Lolita'' :Drama: ::*Samuel Beckett :::*''Waiting for Godot'' ::*Sam Shepard ::*William Shakespeare ::*Tom Stoppard :::*''Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'' ::*Theatre of the Absurd ::*Tragedy ::*Comedy :Film: ::*''Film Noir'' :::*Humphrey Bogart :::*John Huston :::*''The Third Man'' :::*''The Singing Detective'' ::*Quentin Tarantino ::*''Casablanca'' ::*Stanley Kubrick :Music: ::*The Beatles ::*The Rolling Stones ::*\"Weird Al\" Yankovic ::*Classical Music ::*Jazz :Existentialism: ::*Sartre :Emperor Norton I ::*English Monarchs ::*Presidents of the United States ::*Homestarrunner.com ::*Canada '''For Yossarian, press ''twenty-two'' on your touch-tone now. He's lonely and has flies in his eyes. ---- A quote: \"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.\"
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Captain John Yossarian is the protagonist of the 1961 novel ''Catch-22'' by Joseph Heller. He is a part of the 256th squadron of the Army Air Corps (which later became the US Air Force), where he acts as a bombardier (air force). The character's exploits are based on the experiences of the author: Heller was a bombadier in the Air Corps stationed on an island off the coast of Italy during World War II, and also lost crew members when his plane was attacked on his flight to bomb the city of Avignon. His first name is given in the book version of ''Catch-22'' on page 428. Yossarian is also the protagonist of Catch-22's sequel, ''Closing Time'', which was published in 1994. Although the book describes him as being Assyrian, his name indicates an Armenian (people) background. Throughout the book, Yossarian's main concern is the idea that people are trying to kill him, either directly (by attacking his plane) or indirectly (by forcing him to fly missions). His suspicion becomes full-blown paranoia when he finds that, because of Air Force red tape, he can't leave; he is unable to fly the required number of missions to be discharged from duty because his superiors keep increasing the number of required missions; and he can't get a section 8 (military) by pretending to be insane because his superiors see his wanting to get out of flying as a sign of perfect sanity (hence ''Catch-22''.) Because of this, Yossarian boycotts flying missions as much as possible, either through feigning illness or inventing an excuse to return to base (like a busted radio.) In fact, the book begins with Yossarian staying in the hospital due to a liver condition. Yossarian is also haunted by memories of the final moments of Snowden, one of his crew. Snowden, through his death, showed Yossarian that man is mortal. Because of Snowden's death, Yossarian becomes reluctant to fly missions, as it could ultimately result in his death, as it was with Snowden's. The bulk of ''Catch-22'', concerns Yossarian's relationships with the other soldiers in his squadron, such as the psychosis Hungry Joe, the amateur war profiteering Milo Minderbinder, and the spoiled, idealistic Nately. The book also concerns the efforts of Yossarian's superiors, especially the egomaniacal Colonel Cathcart and the Joseph McCarthy-like careerist Captain Black, to continually up the number of required missions so that no one can be discharged. Whenever on leave, Yossarian and his friends carouse, drink, and sleep around as much as they can, knowing and fearing they could die on any given mission. One of the prostitutes they employ becomes Nately's unofficial girlfriend (she is referred to only as "Nately's Whore") and, when Nately is killed, blames Yossarian for his death and repeatedly tries to kill him. Through a convoluted chain of events, Yossarian earns Cathcart's ire for a smuggling scam that was actually perpetrated by Milo and is threatened with imprisonment. When Yossarian threatens Cathcart with exposing his opportunistic manipulation of missions, however, Cathcart backs down and offers to release him from duty as a reward for not telling anybody. catch-22 Fictional air force personnel
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If I recall correctly, isn't Yossarian a bomber pilot (the one who flies the bomber) and not the bombadier (who actually aims and drops the bombs)? --User:Raul654 22:29, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC) :I don't think so...he's always in the back of the plane doing something, as far as I remember. He's definitely never flying though. User:Adam Bishop 22:32, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC) He's definetly the bombardier, Heller mentions he is the lead bombardier and the pilot he flies with is McWatt. You might have gotten confused because he says a few times that hes in the nose of the plane which is the area below the pilots in a little glass dome area. Google B-24 to know what i mean, he was deffinatley bombardier.
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Hello fellow Wikipedians (and other stragglers). I'm Yossarian: I started here in May of 2004. As well as being a geek, I'm a hopelessly romantic-pessimism-playwright-poet from the extreme western part of the Great White North. I believe in democratic socialism (or Libertarian socialism, or social democracy and sometimes even socialism) for all...but I'm also ''very'' willing to make fun of it. I take my name from the ultimate anti-hero...and frankly, I'm damn glad I got to it first... ==Major contributions== *Vladimir (character) *Estragon *Pozzo *Lucky (character) *''Godot Arrives'' *''Act Without Words II'' *''Catastrophe (play) *''The Singing Detective'' *Vivian Mercier *PABAAH (says a number, but it was me) *Mechanical (character) (did a lot of revision and corrections) *The template:Beckett (see below) *The template:Shaw (see below) *The template:Pinter (see below) To do: *Pozzo and Lucky I am currently working for user:Ganymead on Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre. I've assigned myself the task of working through each Beckett play to make them into proper articles. ==Interests (in absolutely no particular order)== :Politics: ::*Communism ::*Socialism ::*Liberalism ::*Conservatism ::*Libertarianism ::*Kimilsungism :History: ::*World War I ::*World War II ::*Russian Revolution ::*The Renaissance ::*Christianity ::*Judaism :Literature: ::*Joseph Heller :::*''Catch-22'' ::*Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. :::*''Slaughterhouse-Five'' ::*Robert A. Heinlein ::*Phillip K. Dick ::*Vladimir Nabokov :::*''Lolita'' :Drama: ::*Samuel Beckett :::*''Waiting for Godot'' ::*Sam Shepard ::*William Shakespeare ::*Tom Stoppard :::*''Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'' ::*Theatre of the Absurd ::*Tragedy ::*Comedy :Film: ::*''Film Noir'' :::*Humphrey Bogart :::*John Huston :::*''The Third Man'' :::*''The Singing Detective'' ::*Quentin Tarantino ::*''Casablanca'' ::*Stanley Kubrick :Music: ::*The Beatles ::*The Rolling Stones ::*\"Weird Al\" Yankovic ::*Classical Music ::*Jazz :Existentialism: ::*Sartre :Emperor Norton I ::*English Monarchs ::*Presidents of the United States ::*Homestarrunner.com ::*Canada '''For Yossarian, press ''twenty-two'' on your touch-tone now. He's lonely and has flies in his eyes. ---- A quote: \"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.\"
Alfred Hitchcock My motto:''' "Keep it simple...but carry a big freakin' vocabulary just in case." ---- Feel free to leave me a message on my User talk:Yossarian. ---- I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
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==Help in dispute resolution== Your help would be welcome in helping to resolve the dispute over at the Collectivism article. -- User:Mihnea Tudoreanu 15:42, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC) == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "
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