The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Frankie Runnels

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, is a book that was meant for his son and to his son’s sons, to read and apply to their lives just as one of my favorite quotes says,

“Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations and therefore fit to be imitated".

The book was obviously about the life of Benjamin Franklin but more on a personal level. A series of events that helped define who he was and will become. He starts off with a time line of his ancestral tree. Taking him back over two hundred years ago than when he starts to write about his parents. Explaining how many people were in his family. Soon after Benjamin Franklin begins to talk about his early years such as the school he went to and the first job he had. He worked at a printing press owned by his brother when he was twelve at the time. Eight years after he developed a style of writing that people started to like but along the way butt heads with his brother many times. So many that he takes his leave to New York at first but then leaves to Philadelphia. After a few more events later he returned to his home land after working for another printing press than sails out to London for a couple of years. Then comes back starts a group called junto than marries his lover Deborah Reed and that sums up chapter one.