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Yossarian Fight In War

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Yossarian is a complex character, which throughout the novel is fighting many different wars, literally and figuratively: referring to the actual war, his colonels and the problematic bureaucratic corruption amongst officials in the military. Yossarian fights missions waiting to go home after he has completely his quota, however he constantly has his quota increased by a corrupt colonel Cathcart, who forces him to continue fighting in the war and flying extra missions. Yossarian fears death and this becomes one of the main reasons he does not want to fight in war any longer. Due of the extension of his quota, Yossarian sees death all around him and he is eventually consumed with the idea and the inevitability of it. After witnesses so much

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