Hiding Place and Your Novel

One scene from each source that encapsulated the difference between how war was described was during the first Nazi raid on the safe house in the Hiding Place, compared to the infirmary scene at the beginning of Catch 22. While both occurred away from the frontlines, the Hiding Place displayed much more at stake, and characters where much more passionate and proactive in the war efforts, and truly believed in the war cause, while men in the infirmary were nowhere as passionate, and were either in the infirmary to avoid the war, or were only participating due to them being required to do so. Another scene comparison that could share the same cause is the interrogation scene in the Hiding place, where interrogation is treated like a proper interrogation, with lives at stake and threats upon the character interrogated. Compare this to the scene in Catch 22 , where the main character chooses his life before his fellow men’s turning his back upon them in exchange for freedom from the war, while the interrogation scene had the character much more loyal to the cause, giving out a dead man’s name.