Arturo Garcia Choice topic 2

The protagonist of the novel Catch 22, Yossarian, has one goal to live forever or to die trying. He bases this goal on the assumption that he will fail, he understands that he will eventually die. He is haunted by Death, this manifests it’s self in the for of Snowden and the dead man in his tent. The death of Snowden has a particularly profound effect on Yossarian. With the death of Snowden Yossarian comes to the realization that man is garbage, after this event his only goal is to protect his own life and the lives of those around him. He goes to great lengths to achieve his goals. He attempts to spend as much time as possible in the hospital, by exploiting the fact that he always has a temperature of 101 degrees, and claims that he has a liver problem. During mission he orders his pilots to take very aggressive evasive maneuvers to avoid flack.  He also obsesses over the ways he could be killed an is convinced that many people are trying to kill him.