Surprisingly, this week we only read one story. It was a part of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. It was interesting, because it showed Franklin's priorities when he was seventeen years old. The overall autobiography is discussing his life, ideas and the goals he wants to achieve. The specific portion we read was when he was seventeen in 1723. The audience is the readers. I think, that teens can connect more with this specific part, because we are almost the same age. It shows us his perspective during that time. The subject of the story is moral perfection and self improvement. Benjamin Franklin's tone was informative, practical and descriptive. There are specific qualities a person has to do to achieve moral perfection.
There were many categories in Franklin's chart. Every day, he would work on one, and if he improves, he moves on to the next category. One of the examples are silence and tranquility. He always started of his day with a question. "What am I going to achieve today", and at the end of the day answer the question. Even though, today, we live in a technological world and we do not emphasize on moral perfection, I think what he did was pretty incredible, because he tested his own abilities, and maybe if his environment did not interfere, he would have succeeded.
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