Benjamin Franklin Research Paper
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
From reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, who throughout his life Benjamin Franklin was known for being in many different trades, from a publisher, an inventor, a diplomat, to a political philosopher, I have come to learn that his life was about doing what he needed to become successful. Benjamin Franklin has written his autobiography in a unique and unified way, but also in some ways very disjointed making the effectiveness of the theme detracted, which made reading his autobiography even more difficult to understand and follow at times.
As Benjamin Franklin wrote his autobiography, it seemed to be written as if he was following the time line of his life but then would at times cast away from …show more content…
Telling him about some of his father’s ancestors and his life before Benjamin Franklin was born. His father had written about finding accounts of his ancestor’s births, marriages, and deaths from the year 1555 only in the registers at Ecton. Benjamin Franklin had three uncles, Thomas who took after his father in becoming a Smith. He died January 6, 1702. Benjamin Franklin and his father believed if Thomas had died the same day Benjamin Franklin was born "one might have supposed transmigration" in other words, they believed Benjamin Franklin could have been reincarnated. John was another uncle of Benjamin Franklin who was a dyer in woolens. Finally there was Benjamin, who Benjamin Franklin himself was named after, that was a silk …show more content…
Benjamin Franklin starts to jump from one year and then jumps to another year and then back again to continue on the unified timeline that he seemed to be following. For some examples:
- Benjamin Franklin writes that 1758 was the year he stopped writing for the Almanac, then jumps back to 1748 to discuss when he sold his business.
- Towards the beginning of Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography, he writes how he meets Rebecca Read and how he should have married her but he was moving out of town and explained how it would have never worked. Then later Benjamin Franklin comes back to Rebecca Read in the autobiography when he talks about wanting to settle down and marry, then Benjamin Franklin jumps back to the time when he first met Rebecca Read and ends up running into her and finally marring her.
I feel that the time that it took to finish the work of Benjamin
From reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, who throughout his life Benjamin Franklin was known for being in many different trades, from a publisher, an inventor, a diplomat, to a political philosopher, I have come to learn that his life was about doing what he needed to become successful. Benjamin Franklin has written his autobiography in a unique and unified way, but also in some ways very disjointed making the effectiveness of the theme detracted, which made reading his autobiography even more difficult to understand and follow at times.
As Benjamin Franklin wrote his autobiography, it seemed to be written as if he was following the time line of his life but then would at times cast away from …show more content…
Telling him about some of his father’s ancestors and his life before Benjamin Franklin was born. His father had written about finding accounts of his ancestor’s births, marriages, and deaths from the year 1555 only in the registers at Ecton. Benjamin Franklin had three uncles, Thomas who took after his father in becoming a Smith. He died January 6, 1702. Benjamin Franklin and his father believed if Thomas had died the same day Benjamin Franklin was born "one might have supposed transmigration" in other words, they believed Benjamin Franklin could have been reincarnated. John was another uncle of Benjamin Franklin who was a dyer in woolens. Finally there was Benjamin, who Benjamin Franklin himself was named after, that was a silk …show more content…
Benjamin Franklin starts to jump from one year and then jumps to another year and then back again to continue on the unified timeline that he seemed to be following. For some examples:
- Benjamin Franklin writes that 1758 was the year he stopped writing for the Almanac, then jumps back to 1748 to discuss when he sold his business.
- Towards the beginning of Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography, he writes how he meets Rebecca Read and how he should have married her but he was moving out of town and explained how it would have never worked. Then later Benjamin Franklin comes back to Rebecca Read in the autobiography when he talks about wanting to settle down and marry, then Benjamin Franklin jumps back to the time when he first met Rebecca Read and ends up running into her and finally marring her.
I feel that the time that it took to finish the work of Benjamin