Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Catch-22: tone
The author uses tone not to descibe the thoughts of the narrator or the characters. Satire is heavy in the tone, the entire book is making fun of a group of soldiers and what they have to face in day to day life. The book skips around a lot and is multiple characters stories, from the one all knowing narrator. It is mainly the story of a man and the hysterics of war and what a joke it is to everyone, an example, he gets premoted because he gets people killed. Please if you want to read this book do it over a time period that allows you to actually understand it. or you will hate it with a burning passion of 100,000 white hot suns.
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Are you sure that the literary element is tone? Because I am highly positive that its irony. Although you do bring up a good point that it seems like the author is just making a big joke out of the characters throughout the book. I think that irony is the more promonent element in this novel.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it is full of satire, but I'm possitive that the dominant literary element is motif because the phrase "catch-22" reaccures many times throughout the novel.
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