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How could you BEST combine sentences (1) and (2) from the excerpt to improve the fluidity of the writing?

(1) Catch-22 is an anti-war novel. (2) It is highly influenced in that sense by Joseph Heller’s own experiences flying as a B-25 bombardier during World War II. (3) Heller flew 60 combat missions at the Italian Front and once said that, statistically, he should have died at least three times while serving as a bombardier. (4) In the novel, Yossarian is constantly forced to fight more and more missions before he can go home. (5) Yossarian tries a variety of methods to get out of having to fly his missions. (6) He has himself committed to the medical ward, moves the line on a strategic map, and tries to get the medic for his squadron to declare him to be insane. (7) It is believed by Yossarian that everyone is trying to kill him. (8) He points out that “strangers he didn’t know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them” as evidence of this fact.

SELECT ONE :

An anti-war novel, Joseph Heller was inspired in part by his own experiences flying as a B-25 bombardier when he wrote Catch-22.

Catch-22 is an anti-war novel and is highly influenced in that sense by Joseph Heller’s own experiences flying as a B-25 bombardier during World War II.

Catch-22 is an anti-war novel it is highly influenced in that sense by Joseph Heller's own experiences flying as a B-25 bombardier during World War II.

As an anti-war novel, Catch-22 is highly influenced by Joseph Heller’s own experiences flying as a B-25 bombardier during World War II.