Chapter 11 is called Captain Black where Captain Black is excited to hear that Colonel Cathcart has volunteered the men for the lethal mission of bombing Bologna. He is so excited because he hates those men and gloats about them being so terrifying and hopes to become Commander some day. Chapter 12 begins with the men arriving in Bologna but, its raining and the men pray that the rain never stops including Yossarian of course because he is so afraid to go to combat. "It rains interminably before the Bologna mission, and the bombing run is delayed. The men all hope it will never stop raining. When it does, Yossarian moves the bomb line on the map so that the commanding officers will think that Bologna has already been captured. Yossarian also gives the entire squad diarrhea by poisoning the food so that they won’t have to fly. The rain then starts again." Luckily for Yossarian all the men actually caught diarrhea and the rain started again that they never got the chance to go to combat.
By the time it came to actually bomb Bologna,Yossarian wasn't in the mood and was not going to give up anytime soon. Yossarian does not feel like going over the target even once. He pretends that his plane’s intercom system is broken and orders his pilot, Kid Sampson, to turn back. Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren reprimand Yossarian and his crew for turning back and tell the men that since they missed the ammunition dumps the first time, they will have to bomb Bologna again. Ironically Yossarian arrives to Bologna confidently not expecting anything to be happening upon his arrival but he was wrong. Ultimately him and his crew drop there bombs and fight along side each other Yossarian does not die but, many other soldiers do.
Question:Why do you think Yossarian wont give up by now and go to combat ? Don't you think it's time that he realizes he might die whether at war or walking down the street ?
I believe he knows he can die at any time but he doesn't want to die in combat in a war that he doesn't care about. Wouldn't you, if you could choose how you die, rather die someplace else than in combat?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Antoineice, Yossarian doesn't want to die and is trying to do everything in his power not to die. Since he already is paranoid about someone trying to kill him, he knows he is going to die but there are betters ways to die than in combat.
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