Franklin 15, his brother and friends ran a newspaper called New England News, which published some sketches in almost every issue and was very popular with readers. Although Franklin appreciated their articles, he didn't like his brother's posturing. Franklin decided to write an article, too. Don't let his brother always cry roast meat. However, can Franklin give the article directly to his brother? In that case, his brother will surely tear the manuscript to pieces without looking at it. What shall we do? Franklin decided to change the font, write a sketch under a pseudonym, and then put the manuscript in the door of the printing house when it was dark. His brother found this manuscript for the first time and found it wonderful. The article was signed "Mrs Sharon Dogud", which surprised his brother. He has never heard of such a "woman writer" in Boston. The results of friends' review agreed to be published first. In the next few consecutive issues, Franklin's brother will receive the manuscript from the "lady" on time, and the manuscript is well written, so it was published without exception. For a time, "Mrs Sharon Dogud" became a household name: every household knew it. Many readers believe that this "lady" must be a "famous professor" because of her beautiful and sophisticated writing style. However, there are no such "ladies" and "professors" in the whole town. Finally, the mystery was finally solved. It turns out that such a famous writer who is a "lady" and a "professor" is 65433. The mystery was solved by Franklin's brother, who was determined to solve it out of curiosity. So, he set a date for the submission of "Mrs.", then sat in the printing house all night, and finally caught Franklin. However, instead of praising his talent, his younger brother scolded him. His brother's bullying behavior made the abused Franklin more and more unbearable. He thinks his brother is a tyrant. Finally, at the age of 17, he broke away from his brother and left his hometown to make a living in Philadelphia alone.
Franklin had a unique way to cultivate his writing ability. After reading a good article, he wrote down a detailed outline of the content. A few days later, he wrote an article according to the outline without reading the original text, and then compared his article with the original text and made some changes and corrections. In such training, he found that his vocabulary was not much. He thinks that a good way to enlarge his vocabulary is to write poems, so he tries to write many essays into poems. In a few days, he rewrote these poems into prose and practiced them again and again. Through such hard training, Franklin's writing ability improved rapidly.
Franklin has many works, including on wasting time, on happiness, on profiteers, on education and so on. The most famous of them are Autobiography and Poor Richard's Yearbook. Autobiography is a book about his family life, which specifically describes his life from a poor child to an industrialist, scientist, writer, inventor and revolutionary.
His autobiography is so cordial and true from beginning to end, so trivial anecdotes and explanations are more interesting than historical events. This book is lively and humorous, and it is worth reading. It is an excellent work in the history of American literature that reflects the awakening of the colonial people in North America and their struggle for independence and freedom in the18th century. For more than 200 years, it has been loved by people and translated into various languages.