Joseph Heller's Influence On War

Joseph Heller the author of one of my primary sources, Catch-22, was an American author who was born on May 1st, 1923. Heller who was an effective war story writer got his first experience with war when he enlisted in the U.S. Army. At the young age of nineteen Heller became a soldier for the United States in the thick of World War II. During his deployment he flow over sixty missions for the U.S. Army. While war has a profound effect on anyone involved; Heller claims that his time in the war had no influence on his writing of Catch-22. Heller’s focus while writing is usually the metal effects that war has on soldiers. In Catch-22 Heller writes about a soldier who is attempting to do anything in his power to be sent home from the war. The
Crane was born on November 1st, 1871. Crane started writing about war from a very early stage in his life. His first published work was in The New York Tribune. The main war Crane wrote about was the American Civil War. Crane had a section of the paper where he wrote about how the civil war affected the entirety of New York City. After his writing with the paper, Crane moved on to his own writings like novels, short stories, and poems. This period of downtime between his writing for the paper and his enlistment in the army is when Crane wrote his most famous pieces of literature. Crane is often praised by veterans for his ability to capture how war and battle feel not only physically but mentally. His best work is the civil war novel, “The Red Badge of Courage.” The “Red Badge of Courage” focuses on how war can make a solider feel or think. For this reason the novel is regarded as the best non-romantic Civil War book ever
This film was written by Robert Rodat and directed by Steven Spielberg. Saving Private Ryan is based on a true story of the Niland family, who lost all but one of their sons in WWII. The movie’s plot focuses heavily on the mental impact war can have on soldiers and their families. Spielberg's goal when he first created Saving Private Ryan was to have the most visually accurate representation of combat that had ever been made. Many veterans think he accomplished this goal. Often he is credited with having the accurate portrayal of war veterans have ever seen. To help accomplish this goal Spielberg decided to have no slow motion filming in the movie during battle scenes. The real-time scenes helped but the viewers in the place of the soldiers and gave war a more realistic and relatable feel to those watching. Spielberg said in an interview about how he made the movie, “I just went to war and did things the way I thought a combat cameraman would have”(When Steven Spielberg). What I believe Spielberg meant here was he wanted to capture not only how war looked but how it felt. The way Spielberg was able to capture the mental effects war had on soldiers is what makes Saving Private Ryan so