"What then is the American?" Jean de Crévecoeur stated in his story Letters from an American Farmer. His description of an American is a blessed man that should be idealized by Europeans, because in America you can marry whomever you fall in love with, and you can go from dirt poor to one of the wealthiest men in less than a lifetime. His ideas of an American describe many people but one …showed first 75 words of 494 total…

…showed last 75 words of 494 total…fictional character known as an American farmer. Although, it was not likely to be intentional, he depicted one of the founding fathers that made the United States the free country that so many call home today. Benjamin Franklin was hard working, dedicated and he embraced ideas that most would laugh at and transformed them into reality. Benjamin Franklin was an amazing idealistic American that helped to give all Americans the wonderful life we have now.