Benjamin Franklin

Read "Silence Dogood" essays 1-5 and part I of the Autobiography.

Franklin is known for creating and perpetuating various personas in his writings. For this post, compare the persona that he creates in the “Silence Dogood” essays and in his Autobiography. How does this persona affect his texts and readers’ possible response to them? Is his persona in the Autobiography more legitimate than the one in his essays? Choose specific textual moments to explore your answer.

[Reminder: Each blog post should be at least 300 words, you should quote from the text we are reading, you should post no later than 7:00 p.m. the night before class, and unless you are the first person to post, you should respond to the post of at least one other student by either agreeing or disagreeing with that post. (For instance, “SCSU123 says Franklin . . ., but I think . . . .)]