Benjamin Franklin-- inventor, scientist, and a man of many success was an intelligent and interesting man. Through various deeds, he has improved and changed the lives of numerous individuals. Of many published accounts, he wrote “The Columbian Magazine” in 1786 where he tells us of his love for chess and how it has “been the amusement of all civilized nations of Asia.” He believed the game taught valuable life lessons and that “[it contained] several very valuable qualities of the mind [that are] useful in the course of human life [which are to] be acquired or strengthened by [the game].” Included in the passage, is a familiar form of his writing known as process analysis. Moreover, Franklin uses the mode of definition, illustration, and analogy to develop his argument on how “life is a kind of chess.” One strategy Franklin employs is the mode of definition. He identifies the factors inherited by the game and the definitions that follow. In paragraph 3, he lists the first factor foresight, which states, “I. Foresight, which looks a little into futurity and considers the consequences that may attend an action… ” Usually before you move a chess piece, you analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the outcome. In your head you think, “What will be the …show more content…
He describes how “life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with…” Throughout the passage, Franklin describes playing the game to life and illustrates the chessboard and its pieces to scenarios we go through in reality. Franklin writes, “For life is a kind of chess...and in which there is a vast variety of good and evil events that are in some degree the effects of prudence or the wants of it.” The illustration of the game to life helps us see how chess is really portrayed and its value on how we should live our