Dear Historians,
I am reading Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. It has been a little boring so far, but I think it will get better. So far, Benjamin Franklin has been growing up as an apprentice. He was a candle maker at first, then became a printing apprentice to his older brother because his father feared he would go to sea and sail away like his other brother. The printing company was called the Boston Gazette. Benjamin Franklin hated making candles and loved reading and writing. He would buy books with the little money he had, and if there was a good book, he would copy the sentences and see if it looked the same. If it didn't, he'd change it.
When his brother went to jail because he printed something bad about the king, Benjamin took over the company for now. His workers were afraid of him and when he quit to get another job, they told the other newspaper companies do not hire him. He then decided to go to New York and get a printing job there. He first walked to the Harbor in Boston. When they reached the beach of New York, he had to walk more to another town to get a boat to Philadelphia, where he heard there was a printing company. This is where I left off.
A reader,
Alexander Yan
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