Yossarian's Emissions Of War

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The book starts out with the main character Yossarian in the middle of World War II. He is in the Air Force, but he hates the war and believes people want to kill him. The squadron he is in has many problems but as long as Yossarian does his minimum of forty five missions he can get to go home. However, colonel Cathcart keeps raising this number of missions on his men. Yossarian goes to the hospital and tries to get out of the war by saying he is mentally insane but fails to get sent home. While he is in the hospital he writes letters but signs them as “Washington Irving” to fool the people who sensor the letters. The death of Snowden bothers yossarian for a good deal of the book. He is constantly disturbed by the idea of war and dying. When

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