The Theme Of Catch 22

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in remote instinctive distress and kept repeating ‘Illegal Tobacco, Illegal Tobacco” (Heller 421). This obsession with profit comes up as a major theme throughout the Bible and the book of Job is not an exception. Job’s friends bring up several times that if Job was less greedy maybe he would not be stricken with such a terrible plight. Job’s friend tells him “The heavens will reveal his sins, and the earth will give testimony against him. Hi wealth will disappear beneath the wrath of God. This is what awaits the wicked man, for God prepares it for him.” (Job 27:20-29). Although it is not revealed what becomes of Milo Minderbinder it might be assumed that it is unlucky. The parallels between Job and Catch-22 suggest that eventualy Milo will get what he deserves. If not in his earthly life it will be when he receives his final judgment because God is presented as being just and right therefore He will punish those who sin.
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trust in God is the main theme in Job and the chaplain reflects this theme. In that way the chaplain is like Job. They both have faith in God, but question him at times. “It was already sometime since the chaplain had first begun wondering what everything was all about. Was there a God? How could he be sure? Being an Anabaptist minister in the American Army was difficult enough under the best of circumstances; without dogma, it was almost intolerable.” (Heller 277). Many times the chaplain was ready to give up his faith and the hope he had in God. But something always let him keep the faith. “The chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was now restrained by ...

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