Lecture notes

Dickens:

•romanticism

-doubleness of character

-"streaky bacon": the author combines sentiment and humor

•subject matter

•themes/tones 

Heller (Catch 22)

•Postmodernism: used humor

<WAR

-hopeless despair

-humor

•narrative structure

•diction/syntax

A catch-22 is that you need money to go to college, but you need to go to college to get money. 

Quote:

"Moral was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them."

•quite ironic in the second half of the sentence