Reaction to Bejamin Franklin's: The Autobiography

What I found most fascinating about Franklin's writing came when I referred back to that of St. Augstine's. In comparison this text is more of a documentation of what his heritage is---his family lineage. Rather than any sort of personal reflection. What a typical autobiography entails is not quintessential in this work. Where as the piece we read by Augustine that is rather dramatic in introspection stating grand foibles he has a youth, temptations, struggles and inturn 'confessing', Franklin overall has an optimistic persuasion. At the very beginning he states how thankful he is for the life in which he has lived. Later he does discuss specific characters he met along the way and lessons that he learned as a youth----overall it seems as though he does not have much guilt or any brewing anguish towards the path he has taken in life---I can appreciate this greatly.