Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Joseph Heller's Catch-22 use similar motifs to convey their common anti-war message. Although it is truly difficult for any author to communicate the true nature of war in a work of literature, both novels are triumphant in their attempts to convey the devastating experience. The authors' analogous writing styles, themes, and motifs run parallel to one another. Both Slaughterhouse-Five and Catch-22 incorporate irony, exemplify the idiocy and folly of military institutions, …showed first 75 words of 1224 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1224 total…CITED PAGE: Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. New York, New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc: 1989. Meredith, James H. Understanding the Literature of WWII. Greenwood, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999. Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Encyclopedia of Satirical Literature. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO Incorporated, 1996: 433-435. Vit, Marek. "Kurt Vonnegut's Corner". 2002. 2 May 2004. <http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/themes.html> <Tab/> Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five. New York, New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc: 1968.