The Lack Of Comprehensive Speech In Catch — страница 2

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However, he says to Milo, “The men don’t have to sign…….if they don’t want to. But we need you to starve them to death if they don’t.”(118) Obviously, this statement is a contradiction. If Captain Black is going to starve them to death, then the oath is, in fact, forcing every member of the squadron to sign. Colonel Cargill, Clevinger, Major Major, Dr. Stubbs, Sergeant Towser, Captain Black, Appleby, Havermeyer, Orr, and of course, Yossarian are all notorious for speaking profusely and rarely saying anything of substance. Frequently, the jumbled dialogues are a result of two characters communicating on different wave lengths. This is seen when Clevinger is being questioned. The colonel and Clevinger are thinking so differently at the time, that there is no way they

would be able to understand one another. This book definitely makes one realize how difficult it is to communicate, the problems people have trying to understand one another, and realizing that sometimes what we say has no meaning.