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The Influence Of Isaac-Sons In Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

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Isaac-sons help is really helpful for understanding Franklin 's autobiography like when he said ' ' But wait a minute. There’s something more. Peel back a layer and we can see him as a 65-year-old wry observer, sitting in an English country house, writing this scene, pretending it’s part of a letter to his son, an illegitimate son who has become a royal governor with aristocratic pretensions and needs to be reminded of his humble roots ' ' he really does make us think of more than just Franklin but also behind his autobiography. It also gives us the reader another persons perspective on how "things" went, so everything adds up if Benjamin Franklin tells us one thing but isn 't detailed and doesn 't give us the full story we still have Isaac

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