What is the role of an individual in society? (Based on The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin)

Franklin takes great care to imprint a literary motif to the timeline of his life as a means of paralleling his personal story with that of the creation of America. The autobiography presents the actual achievement of the American Dream as a revolution of independence over living a life of dependence. Franklin portrays his rise to statesman, ambassador, and Founding Father as a thematic transformation from slave-to-fate to sovereign of his own destiny.