![]() ![]() ![]() His Assyrian background is a point of contention, and his name is reviled as being “odious” and “a name that does not inspire confidence.” He is only referred to as “Yo-Yo” toward the end of the book, by young new tent mates whom he doesn’t like. The book: Yossarian’s name makes him stand out from his peers with their more American-sounding surnames. The structural changes downplay the purposeful chaos of the book’s organization, and mean the series is populated with fewer of the incessant, obvious contradictions that define the experience of reading Heller’s novel. Flashbacks are excised, and the story rearranges some key events to create an arc of Yossarian’s spirit being progressively broken, and adds a completely different ending. The miniseries: The series is told mostly chronologically, though it does start with a traumatic event (Snowden’s death) that is finally referenced in the sixth and final episode of the miniseries. This non-chronological storytelling puts the focus on the emotional arc that takes Yossarian from the first time we see him in a hospital through his final flight to Sweden. The turmoil of memory often dictates when sequences are referenced, with one incident suddenly leading to the telling of another in the past. The book: Heller’s arrangement of the events that befall central soldier Yossarian does not lend itself to a tidy sequential narrative rather, it comprises certain episodes, like Snowden’s death, that are referred back to and later elaborated on. ![]()
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