This week in reading, the final post.

Hello everybody, and welcome to the final post on this blog!

So a little bit, of what has happened in the book this final time, there are some spoilers here. So if you want to read the book for yourself just know that in my opinion, it is a great book and i want you to read it!

(Just pretend it says, "I want YOU to read Catch-22)

Either way, from here on out is a minefield of spoilers so read at your own risk, you have been warned.

So here we reach the climax of Catch-22, something that has been hinted at all the way through the novel, we have Yossarian in his darkest point in the novel. It is nighttime in Rome, Nately's whore and her sister has gone missing, probably taken by Military police officers. Yossarian sees abusive people, neglected children and buildings that has deteriorated without anyone to care for them over time. Oppression of the free people, he sees rape and murder. Yossarian's mind goes crazy and eventually explodes (not literally) with one big moral question regarding the absolutes of war. "One cannot kill another person and not pay for it" is what is going through his mind, yet what he sees, is Aarfy, the murderer getting an apology from the police officers. While one of the requirements of war is to kill people, yet what he has seen seem to him to be undermining every moral and natural law there is. Then Snowden's death, being hinted at as long as i can remember in the novel, although it happened a few chapters ago, we did not know the whole picture, until the end of the novel. Probably one of the most important events of the book, this is where Yossarian learns that death is not something he can control, and that there are some wounds you can't get away from without eventually succumbing to them.

Yossarian finally realizes that even though it is said that the impulse to live is the strongest there is in a human, and that people will do everything to survive is wrong. Rather that he himself, cannot live as either a hypocrite or a slave. This leads him to take his life in his own hands and attempt an escape from the military. In the end, he runs away refusing to sell his mind and body to the bureaucratically made machine that is the U.S military.

The book is one of the more interesting i have read, maybe it is because i haven't just been reading it for the ride along, but because i have dug deeper, read more between the lines and looked for real life comparisons and similarities with the modern society. Overall, it is an easy to read book, easy to keep track of and great literary piece of work.

The ending was grim and dark, and fitting for a novel set during the bloodiest war in history, yet I am happy that it went the way it did.

Here is a picture of Yossarian signing off for the last time with me. Enjoy your life everybody, we all know Yossarian did his best to enjoy his and of course, to live through the war, or die trying.

-Mikkel