Catch-22
The Reader's Response

By: John O'dea

I have chosen a reader response criticism for Catch-22, because I believe it gives me the freedom to interpret, and explore the book on the freest and most personal grounds. It gives me the opportunity to look inward and contemplate the thought provoking scenes occurrences in Catch-22 on my own terms, and then allows me to relate these findings to fellow peers and readers.
A reader response criticism complies with my beliefs of Literature, in that everyone who reads a book comes from a figuratively different place than any other reader. Since everyone is a unique individual, the impressions, and meanings of passages are to be interpreted by these readers in their own unique and individual way.
Therefore, it is a reader response critic's belief that works of Literature do not have one specific meaning, as they are all interpreted by different people. Two people may believe that texts have different meanings, or believe......

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Title: Catch-22 Readers Response
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