I like reading autobiographies. What is special about Benjamin Franklin for me is that it is written the same way I am writing my journal: bits and pieces of ideas and events. However, this is not something that I would take against him. Knowing how few people were actually able to read and write, Franklin’s books stands as a firsthand description of early America.
Franklin sounds a poised writer and although the autobiography is the kind of continuous writing, it succeeds in depicting the traits of America being the “land of opportunity or dreams”. Franklin sets himself as a example of fight and struggle towards finally doing what he loves most: books and writing.
I tend to think that Franklin’s autobiography has a typical American tone and rhetoric. It is at the same time assertive, funny, steady and reasonable. It is assertive when the writer delves in presenting his ideas without any moderation (although he later worked on fixing this problem). It is funny because the writer sound light hearted and simplifies some ideas or events. Obviously, Franklin has worked on his style long enough (and was taught by his father) so he masters a couple of discourses that their details transferred into his writing.
