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美国文学选读 第三版 课后习题答案 陶洁( 部分) Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography 1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography? Franklin says that because his son may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past. He also says that he has enjoyed his life and would like to repeat it. 参考： The Autobiography is a book which contains the wisdom and successin life struggle, and unites the true meaning of goodnessand morality. It is regarded as a book that changes many peoples fates in terms of American Dream. As we all know, Benjamin Franklin is labeled as a self-made man and the first great man of letters. The Autoniography also makes several firsts: The first popular self-help book ever published; The first major secular American Autobiography; The first real account of the American Dream action. He made so many achievements, but the reason we should also be aware of. As far as I am concerned, the celebrities write autobiography to make people understand themselves and inspire future generations. Besides, he may want to be immortal in the history. However, in The Autobiography, Franklin wants to lecture his son as well as the Americans who holds a dream to fight against difficulties in the way to success. Specifically, it can be divided into several parts. In 1771, Franklin was staying at Chilbolton, in the house of Bishop Jonanthan Shipley near Twyford in Hampshire. Shipley was a pro-American bishop among the British Bishops. He and his large family loved Franklin and regarded him as a modern day Socrates. They found Franklins anecdotes of his childhood remarkable and insisted that he should tell the world the story of his life. With their encouragement, Franklin wrote the first part of his Autobiography. In Part One, Franklin addressed his son William, who was royal Governor of New Jersey,as the audience. The outbreak of the Revolution in 1776 made any plan for the memoirs impossible. In 1784 when he did have some