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Catch-22, Joseph Heller's send-up of military organizational bureaucracy, provides readers with an opportunity to consider the importance of the anti-hero. Class members fill out a worksheet comparing and contrasting the qualities of heroes and anti-heroes found in Yossarian.
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Instructional Ideas
- Ask class members to use their worksheets as the basis of a compare/contrast essay
Classroom Considerations
- Requires a class set of the novel
- Provides a PDF of the "Compare and Contrast Antiheroes" worksheet
- Readers should be familiar with the antihero concept (think Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye)
- Presumes that class members have finished reading the novel
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- Includes a detailed lesson plan and links to other resources in the series
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