posed an effective method of demonstrating this fact. He invented the lightning rod and offered what is called the “one-fluid” theory in explanation of the two kinds of electricity, positive and negative. His final major accomplishment which I found was that in 1749 he wrote “Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania” and its publication led to the establishment of the Philadelphia Academy, later to become the University of Pennsylvania. Then the autobiography ends, without even touching the facts about Franklin in America or with signing the U.S. Constitution. (The reason for the end of the autobiography is that Franklin died before he was able to finish it.)Usually autobiographies are very boring books, about some guy that average people like me don’t really care about. But then this book was more then just another boring autobiography. This book amazed me by how a lower class son of a candle maker could grow up to become who he did. That man was Benjamin Franklin. Even though I enjoyed much of this book, I like any average teenager found some parts of book to be boring. For instance, to be honest I didn’t enjoy how Franklin went so far back in time to describe his grandparents and his older generations. This information about Franklin’s older generations helped me as a reader to get more insight about Franklin’s family but wasn’t that informative about how it didn’t relate his family to what goals or influences they had for Franklin growing up. So the book was interesting to some perspectives, while others were just ok. Even with the ambiguities, I found this book doesn’t relate about the life of Franklin, but about how he outdid others. This was not only a story of success but also of triumphs over the odds. Thus I would like to recommend this book to those that believe that one person can’t make a difference, or that if someone was born into ...
