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Date Posted: 17:59:15 05/02/07 Wed
Author: Adriana Assis
Subject: Task Two

The Crusaders by Stefan Heym and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller are two books about narratives of war. The first one describes certain events like a Fourth of July leaflet; the American Army helped to liberate Paris, and it operated a radio station in Luxemburg; the Battle of the Bulge and it encircled the Ruhr area and Germans penetrating American lines in American uniforms, and some of them were executed. Similarly the second one was inspired by American political, military, and social events of the 1950s, but it is more about than the World War II, it is also about the Korean War and the Cold War. Both of them there is the collusion of business in war in a different ways.
According to the novel The Crusaders the collusion of business is around a group of officers in what is called Propaganda Intelligence which is distinguished primarily for its level-headed and generally balanced view of a conflict. They are apparently interested only in graft, but actually cause deaths through the necessary functioning of the racket. The opportunists are distinguished from the people who beleive in the war as a crusade, not because they donīt know what they are fighting for, but because they donīt need to know.
On the other hand, the collusion of business in the Catch-22 is traced by efforts of Yossarian,the main character who is an American bombardier in the World War II, to escape his paricipation in a war that seems meaningless. The author tries to convince the readers to settle our differencesinstead of killing each other. Besides, the humor lies in pokes at the system; the horror stems from the realization that the search for indivialism may be futile.
In brief these facts show that Heym and Heller carry the same theme with tragedies, conflicts, moral violence, torture and deaths but with the different points of view. The collusion of business in the The Crusaders is interesting for its scope, for the ambition that author Heym reveals, for his boldness in attempting a major work, and for the odd foreign quality, sometimes engaging, of his observations. On the contrary, in the Catch-22 Heller doesnīt regard patriotism, duty to God and country, or allegiance to noble principles as worth goals. He concludes, existentially, that society provides a shallow and often evil structure for living. It seems offensive or disturbing, but it is more likely a result of the bookīs irreverence than its violence.

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