Frederick_Douglass_-_Ben_Franklin

Frederick Douglass - Ben Franklin Chris Franz Formula for a Hero Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin are both American heroes, and yet the obvious differences between them abound. How, then, can both men be portrayed with such comparable amounts of reverence' Though they may have lived their lives in different ways, Douglass and Franklin both followed a certain pathway of hard work to gain their status. In their rise from obscurity to fame, Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin had lowly starts to their respective journeys. Both men were born to a humble beginning without much opportunity for climbing the ladder to reach a higher status. Comparably, Franklin had the more favorable life, however. His was a merchant-class family with parents that cared for their children, but since Benjamin was the fifteenth of seventeen offspring, he frequently had to rely on his own devices growing up. Frederick Douglass, of course, was born a mulatto slave with a black field hand as a mother, whom he was never close to. In fact, he only saw her a handful of times before she died. Though he did not know who his white father was, there was much talk about the master being his father douglass, franklin, ben, work, both, slave, reading, own, much, frederick, through, new, men, master, education, began, writing, saw, others, knowledge, father, even, collins, city, benjamin, auld, whom, white, upon, under, showed, result, read, power, once, might, means, man, lives, life, john, himself, hard, frequently, before, became, american, about, young, york