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The story of Benjamin Franklin from the autobiography

            In the story of Benjamin Franklin from the autobiography, the character Franklin changes dramatically by exercising what he believed a person should do to accomplish his dreams. Through his every day actions. Through the story he changes from an unpaid semi-slave of his uncle, to a self-made success.
             Is the beginning of the story he was an undeterred servant to his uncle. That made money by selling his own old books on the street corners. After he felt that he had saved up enough money he left and took the ferry down river to make a new life of his own in another city where nobody would recognize him.
             After the six and a half day ferry trip he had only enough money to get himself a couple of loaves of bread. Then wander his new hometown living in the streets by night and doing odd jobs during the day for more money, along with selling the books he had stuffed into his trench coat. After a while he decided to get a house and start up his own business with the money that he had saved. He ended up making a bookstore and making his own library.
             Then began to make a self improvement list for himself that eventually were summed up into the twelve virtues that he followed to try to achieve perfection. Eventually he became very educated; witch was one of the few virtues that he did achieve before he deemed them not accomplishable. Near the end of the story he had become governor of Virginia.
             Franklin changed through this story from a poor indentured servant to an example of the American self-made man. He changed not only the way that he lived but where and how. He changed his whole social class from servant to a highly regarded political icon. .
            


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