1) To what does Franklin attribute his success? What kind of advice does he offer to readers who want to model their life on his?
2) How does The Autobiography reveal Franklin to be an eighteenth-century man? In what ways does he adapt what he calls the “Age of Experiments” to political and personal life?
3) Early in his Autobiography, Franklin describes his family history, noting that he was “the youngest son​ of the youngest Son for 5 Generations back”. How does the failure of cousins who inherited the family estate in England contrast with Franklin’s success despite the disadvantages of his birth?