Catch-22: How it relates to what I've read in class

Catch-22 expresses the antiwar feelings during WWII. In this novel, there are many characters which have different story lines. It's also about a man who expresses the stupidity of war shown through the catch-22. Billy Budd is a novella which was written during the Romanticism era about a ship during the Rationalism period. In this story, the author, Herman Melville, shows the transition from one literary movement to the next by the death of two characters. This novel relates to the novella Billy Budd because of the displacement of the time from when it was written and an underlying theme portrayed through a story.
These two pieces are displaced from the time at which they were written. Catch-22 was written about WWII during WWII. However, this book didn't become beneficial until the Vietnam War. Joseph Heller, the author, tries to portray his distaste for war through this book, but readers began to use this book as a symbol during a later time. Like this novel, Billy Budd was written during the time of Romanticism, but it was set during the time directly after the end of the Revolutionary War. Melville expresses the end of the literary movement of Rationalism, by the death of Captain Vere, one of the main characters, and brings up the idea that Romanticism still exists through the remaining idea of Billy Budd with the crew. These two authors express how they feel about an issue of their time through a book with a different setting then when it was read and influential.