Yossarian Chapter Summaries

Unbroken begins the novel with a dedication then a quote from Walt Whitman. After the Table of Contents, there is a map representing the Western Coast of the United States, Japan, and the Pacific Ocean. It is this area where the story of Louis Zamperini takes place. After the map there is a two page preface. Then the story begins and is broken into thirty-nine chapters. These chapters are then broken into five parts, each part a different stage of Zamperini’s life. After, there is an eighteen page epilogue, eight pages of acknowledgments, fifty-two pages of notes, and a fifteen page index.

In the first few pages of Chapter Three, Kingsolver talks about heirloom vegetables and says “these titles stand for real stories.” What is meant by the title is heirloom plants give off seeds that end up being saved and used for many generations (112). Those seeds have history behind them; family stories that span over several years. For example, on page 144 Kingsolver talked about this heirloom seed exchange in Iowa where one of the founders’ grandfather left a pink tomato plant that his parents brought from Bavaria in the 1870s. The seeds are comparable to a family heirloom. Both get handed down from generation to generation and have a story of what the meaning of the object is and how it all got started.

Wouter, Steven Messenger and the diary entries all have links because they both speak about Ela and Jan Pelgrom, Charlie Sunrise, Dr Hope Michaels and the gold ring, which Jan Pelgrom originally owned and gave to Ela before they died.

Chapter 30 begins with Niska collecting stones that speak to her, in order to build a fire. Xavier is fading away, while Niska tries her best to keep him alive with her stories. She figures that she knows of no medicine or other methods to help ease Xavier’s pain. She want to tell him of his first hunting story alone when Xavier was 6 years old. When tracking a moose, he found a rare chance to witness a mating dance of grouse. Xavier forgot about fear as he watched the dance; however he was hungry, so he shot the female strangler. The next day, he and his aunt tracked and killed the moose. They were proud and returned home for a feast with other awawatuk. Xavier told them of his hunting story by dancing, from then on, he was nicknamed, Little

Why Mary Surratt should not have been executed Mary Surratt should not have been executed. Mary Surratt could have helped a little bit but not enough she should have been executed. One reason Mary Surratt is innocent is because she didn’t know they were going to kill Lincoln. In source 2 it says “It is possible the Mary knew of the kidnapping but not the plan to kill Lincoln.” This means she might not have known the were planning to kill Lincoln so she could be innocent.

Mr. Gawande starts his literature on washing hands. He introduces two friends a microbiologist and an infectious disease specialist. Both work hard and diligently against the spread of diseases just like Semmelweis who is mentioned in the chapter. Something I learned, that not many realize, is that each year two million people acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Mainly because the clinicians only wash their hands one-third to one-half as many times as they should. Semmelweis, mentioned earlier, concluded in 1847 that doctors themselves were to blame for childbed fever, which was the leading cause of

In the book ”Give Me Liberty”, Foner discusses The Battle of the Alamo in Chapter 13.The Battle of the Alamo is between the Mexican Army and the defenders of the Alamo. Texas was actually part of Mexico in 1820 until the Texians wanted independence from Mexico. The battle occurred in 1836 when Santa Ana’s Army reached The Alamo and started to fight with the defenders of the Alamo. When the battle ended the Mexican Arm y( Santa Ana) defeated The Alamo’s defenders leaving numerous men dead. Later on that year the defenders followed the Mexican Army and captured Santa Anna. When they captured him they forced him to sign the treaty of Jacinto or else they would kill him. He eventually signed the treaty and Texas was now independent.

In this chapter we start seeing a flow threw the book Etta Mae is getting back from another one of her trips and is coming to her home which she shares with her good friend Mattie Michaels. As she arrives in a new car , with a new outfit and carrying records. This chapter the author , Gloria Naylor adds in song lyrics to give us the reader some additional information on the evens happing . “I love my man I’m a liar if I say I don’tI love my man I’m a liar if I say I don’t But I’ll quit my man I’m a liar if I say I won’t I’ve been your slave, baby Ever since I’ve been your babe I’ve been your slave Ever since I’ve been your babe But before I’ll be your dogI’ll see you in your grave My man wouldn’t give me no breakfast Wouldn’t give me no dinner Squawked about me supper then he put me outdoors Had the nerve to lay a matchbox on my clothes I didn’t have so many But I had a long, long way to go”

I read the chapter “The Newcomers”, the book first starts off by stating how France started sending explorers to find new lands. When Francis I, (The king of France) sent Jacque Cartier, his job was to find a shipping route and precious gems and metals. Jacque Cartier arrived at Newfoundland and from there journeyed down to Prince Edward Island. Chief Donnacona went with his brother and two sons protest the cross, but the French convinced Donnacona to allow Jacque Cartier to take his two sons Domagaya and Taignoagny. Donnacona told stories to ward off Cartier from going past Quebec City, but soon Cartier went against Donnaconas wishes and past Quebec City and went as far as Montreal. Cartier’s crew got sick with scurvy and died off but he was still alive so he set sail back to France.

Behind Rebel Lines by Seymour Reit, tells the true story of Emma Edmonds, who in April of 1861, answered the rallying cry of President Abraham Lincoln, who called upon the young men of America to join in the Union effort during the Civil War. She had a slender build and had short cropped hair. She was in the habit of wearing men's clothes when she work on her farm. She was raised in St. John, Canada, and had worn men's clothes for years while working on the family farm. Emma felt the resentment of her harsh and remote father who had wanted a son. The fractured relationship between Emma and her father led her, at sixteen years of age, to run away from home. An idealistic young woman, Emma headed for the United States, a nation that needs her help.

The quote above describes the relationship with Colonel Cathcart, in which Cathcart has a worrying doubt about Yossarian and his role in the squadron. Yossarian complains to Doc Daneeka about Colonel Cathcart’s dictum regarding the mission count during every visit to the medical tent. Cathcart’s opinion about Yossarian also dawns upon the other men who start to wonder about the man with that name and who he actually is. One of the main points within the story is when the soldiers question Yossarian during the death of Lt. Mudd, whom the men continuously call “the dead man in Yossarian’s tent” (Heller 166). A character that changes Yossarian completely about war is Snowden. After Snowden’s death, Yossarian is given a medal of honor for fighting through that battle, but unlike the other men, Yossarian shows up in a disorderly fashion. He realizes that he doesn’t want to be in a war-like atmosphere anymore and starts to long for his trips throughout Italy. It is after these trips that Yossarian tries to weasel his way out of the squadron by feigning sicknesses and pleading for Doc Daneeka to claim him insane. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't

Craig Mullaney definitely made many challenges for himself and accepted challenges from others with no questions asked. Being the thriving Valedictorian of his high school class and earning other prestigious accolades he stood out from the other entire student. But at West Point, Mullaney would be intertwined with hundreds of other classmates with the same, if not more achievements, making it seemingly impossible to be any kind of a predominant student.

Yossarian cannot go home because his superiors require him for their own personal gain, and it makes no difference what justification they might give for making him stay. The rest of Yossarian’s squadron has a ‘false consciousness’; they are accepting of the overbearing military system, ironically calling Yossarian, “crazy”. “They’re trying to kill me,” Yossarian told him calmly. Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone". “And what difference does that

    Yossarian's most startling glimpse into the terrors of war and death comes when he spends a night alone on the streets of Rome. He sees homeless children; he witnesses men beating children and dogs, a rape, and a convulsing soldier; he walks over a street littered with broken human teeth. This is one of the rare sections of the novel that does not use humor to point out the cruelty and inhumanity of the world. The scene comes to a climax when Yossarian returns to his apartment and discovers that Aarfy has raped an innocent maid and then thrown her out his window, leaving her dead on the sidewalk below. Then, ironically, Yossarian is arrested for being in Rome without a pass and Aarfy is given an apology for the disturbance, his hideous crime going unpunished. This chapter is when Yossarian begins to really recognize the true face of the military and the meaning of Catch-22; when he goes to the brothel and the old woman tells him that the girls have all been kicked out of their home by soldiers, she explains to him that "Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing" (417;Ch.39). Catch-22 is the justification for every wrong the military commits, and it overrides every other moral law. The horrors that the military creates will never stop, and Yossarian begins to realize that he cannot fight and die

Sampson, George, and Rameck were three kids from the ghetto of Newark, New Jersey. They came from low-income families, and grew up without father figures. All three of them always did well in school, but others around them made a lot of bad choices. This caused many events that them caused them to go to jail. When they met each other in University High School, the three doctors decided to promise to each other that they would all go to college and become doctors. After they made the pact, there were a few problems, but these incidents never stopped them from pursuing their dream of becoming doctors. Today, Dr. Hunt is a Board certified internist at University Medical Center at Princeton