General apache and simplicity

“General Apache”
This story on general apache is a great story. Dick Harrington nails my mind in his story for about 30 min. As a retire educator he came up with this story to show how, it is sometime difficult for us to espresso our ideal or our mind down by writing. In this his essay he used the pass tense to narrated a story that happened in the pass or to reflect on what he experience in the pass with one of his student. This is a reflective essay which talks about the experience of general apache in Vietnam War. Dick Harrington say in page 13 that “writing about it had made me feel I was forcing myself into one of his nightmare of reality”. When i was reading, It seem as if I was in his nightmare.
Continue with the experience of Dick Harrington, in general apache, we also read how he help the woman write her experience with her alcoholic husband. As write we always have something to write or say from our experience but do not know how to start or where to begin. He had that believe that, the only way to guide this student to learn how to write was to promote them to write on any subject of their own.
“Simplicity”
William Zinsser, this guy is so good. The first time read this heading I thought it was about a story but after reading the first paragraph, I just had a clear idea of what it was about. He says that the American writing main problem is clutter. In the third paragraph, Zinsser is given us some secret for good writing, which are expose any sentence to its cleanest components, avoid any long words, avoid word that do not have used in a sentence. He also defended his point of clutter in American writing by given example about Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In simplicity, could be a good guide line for general apache to write his experience. This is because in this passage, we can see how Zinsser identifies our main problem and gave us solution how to work on that. If we think well we are going to write well. For him thinking is like writing. When reading ‘general apache and simplicity’ as a reader, the first 30 second was scrutinize by their story or what they have to say.
After reading these two topics I realized that this is a reflection on their experience. Dick reflected on what his experience with one of his student from Vietnam. He explained the plain this guy had due to war. In simplicity, William was also reflecting on what he analyzes in the American writing and how we can avoid it. But apart from that I think it is like an expressive writing.