Born on June 27, 1880 in a town called Tuscumbia in northern Alabama. She lost her vision and hearing due to a high fever at 19 months old, and soon after, she lost her ability to express speech. However, in this dark and lonely world, because of the efforts of her mentor Anne Sullivan, she learned to read and speak, and began to communicate with other people. He graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in the United States and became a knowledgeable person. His main works include "If You Give Me Three Days of Light", "My Life", "My Teacher", etc. Helen Keller wrote 14 books in her lifetime. "My Life" is her debut novel. As soon as the work was published, it immediately caused a sensation in the United States and was called "an unparalleled masterpiece in the history of world literature." It has published more than a hundred versions and has had a huge impact in the world. This book is compiled from Helen Keller's three books: "My Life", "Out of the Dark", and "Teacher" and the famous essay "If You Give Me Three Days of Light" published in the American "Atlantic Monthly". This book systematically introduces the rich, vivid, true and great life of Helen Keller, and many of the words are introduced to Chinese readers for the first time.
In the 20th century, a unique living individual shocked the world with her bravery. She - Helen Keller, a woman who lived in darkness but brought light to mankind, a woman who lived through A weak woman who passed away 88 years of her life, but survived 87 years of lightless, silent and speechless loneliness.
However, it is such a person who is claustrophobic in the world of blindness, deafness and muteness. He actually graduated from Harvard University's DeCliffe College; and used all his life's energy to run around and build charity organizations to benefit the disabled. He was selected as one of the top ten heroic idols in the United States in the 20th century by Time Magazine.
Creating this miracle all depends on an indomitable heart. Helen accepted the challenge of life, embraced the world with love, faced difficulties with amazing perseverance, and finally found the bright side of life in the darkness, and finally extended her loving hands to the whole world. Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was a famous blind and deaf female writer and speaker in the United States in the 20th century. She was admitted to Harvard University with her strong will. Cliff College became the first blind and deaf person in the world to complete college education. He was selected as one of the "Top Ten Icons of Humanity" by Time Magazine in the United States and was awarded the "Presidential Medal of Freedom."
"If You Give Me Three Days of Light" is Helen Keller's masterpiece of prose. From the perspective of a weak woman with a disability and a strong will, she warned people with healthy bodies to cherish life and cherish the gifts given by the Creator. everything. In addition, "My Life Story" included in this book is Helen Keller's autobiographical work, which is known as "an unparalleled masterpiece in the history of world literature".
Helen Keller became blind and deaf-mute due to illness at an early age, but she continued to strive for self-improvement and overcame tremendous difficulties to finish college. He wrote more than a dozen works throughout his life and was committed to social activities to rescue disabled children, protect women's rights and fight for racial equality. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
She grew up groping in the dark. When she was seven years old, her family hired a tutor for her, Teacher Sullivan, who influenced Helen's life. In order to bring Helen closer to nature, Teacher Sullivan let her roll on the grass, run and jump in the fields, bury seeds in the ground, and climb trees to eat; she also took her to touch the newborn piglets and Go play in the water by the river. With the loving care of her teacher, Helen overcame the obstacles of blindness and deafness and completed college.
In 1936, Helen was very sad when her teacher, who had been with her day and night for fifty years, passed away. Helen knew that without the teacher's love, she would not be where she is today, and she was determined to carry forward the love that the teacher gave her. As a result, Helen traveled to cities large and small in the United States, traveled around the world, ran around for the disabled, and devoted herself to serving those who were less fortunate.
In 1968, Helen passed away at the age of 87. Her lifelong dedication to serving the disabled spread throughout the world. She wrote many books and her story was made into a movie. Teacher Sullivan gave her the most precious love, and she spread love to all unfortunate people, bringing them light and hope.
After her death, she moved the whole world because of her strong will and outstanding contributions. And people everywhere have carried out activities to commemorate her. Teacher Sullivan and Helen Keller got along very well. They got along well within a few days of knowing each other, and Helen Keller also learned to read from Teacher Sullivan.
One day, the teacher wrote the word "water" on Helen Keller's palm. Helen Keller always confused "cup" and "water". Eventually, she got impatient and broke the new doll the teacher gave her. But Teacher Sullivan did not give up on Helen. She took Helen Keller to the fountain and asked Helen Keller to put her little hand under the blowhole and let the cool spring water splash over Helen Keller's hand. Then, Teacher Sullivan wrote the word "water" on Helen Keller's palm. From then on, Helen Keller remembered it firmly and would never be confused again. Helen later recalled: "Somehow, the secret of language was suddenly revealed, and I finally knew that water was a substance flowing through the palm of my hand. This "living word" awakened my soul and gave me light, Hope and happiness. This story is included in the second volume of the middle school Chinese textbook.
However, Teacher Sullivan believes that it is still inconvenient to communicate if you only know how to read but cannot speak. . However, Helen Keller, who had been deaf and blind since she was a child, could not hear other people's voices and couldn't see their mouth movements. Therefore, although she was not mute, she could not speak. < /p>
In order to overcome this difficulty, Teacher Sullivan found an expert for Helen Keller to teach her to use her hands to feel the changes in other people’s mouth shapes when they speak, as well as the differences in nasal inhalation and exhalation. Learning pronunciation. Of course, this is not an easy task, but Helen Keller still did it. In addition to overcoming functional difficulties and learning to speak, Helen Keller also devoted her life to speaking for people with disabilities. , encouraging them to affirm themselves and aspire to be a disabled but not disabled person. Helen Keller's love not only gave people with disabilities full confidence, but also inspired people from all over the world to pay attention to disability welfare and set up institutions one after another. Service organizations to help them live a healthy and happy life. In 1968, Helen passed away (Helen Keller International. Inc, referred to as HKI) Helen Keller International was founded by Helen Keller and other Americans in 1915 to assist the government in carrying out prevention. Blindness, focusing on the education of blind children into the mainstream of society and the rehabilitation of blind adults to enable them to live independently. HKI vigorously assists developing countries in developing their own plans. It also engages in the prevention and treatment of malnutrition. HKI conducts research and prevention projects on dry eye disease, trachoma and other infectious eye diseases caused by vitamin A deficiency, and also provides surgical services to restore sight from blindness caused by cataracts. Where conditions permit, HKI integrates blindness prevention projects with primary medical services. Together. Helen Keller's spirit is worth learning!
Helen Keller was born in a town in northern Alabama, USA, on June 27, 1880. Her life set an example for people. Helen Keller is a world-respected writer and educator. Although fate took away her eyesight and hearing, this woman held it tightly with her diligence and perseverance. The throat of fate. Her name has become a symbol of perseverance, and her legendary life has become a huge spiritual force that inspires people to overcome misfortune.
■ "If you give me three days of light, I will see it for the first time. What I want to see is my dear teacher. "At the age of one year and seven months, the high fever caused by the sudden scarlet fever made Helen blind and deaf, and she became a disabled person who was blind, deaf, and mute. Because deaf-blind children have no way to obtain correct information, the window to the soul Being imprisoned caused her to have a surly character and a bad temper. When she was 7 years old, a female teacher named Anne Sullivan came to her side. Since then, she has been with Helen day and night, guiding her out of infinity with love and wisdom. The darkness and loneliness that Helen created in her life are all inseparable from this outstanding young educator of deaf-mute children. Helen expressed her affection for Teacher Sullivan in her article "If You Give Me Three Days of Light". Love: "If I were given three days of light, the first thing I would want to see is my dear teacher.
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The day Sullivan came to Helen’s house as a tutor, he gave her a toy doll and spelled “doll” (doll) slowly and repeatedly on Helen’s little hand with her fingers. This word. Helen immediately became interested in this game. She imitated the teacher's actions over and over again. From then on, she began to understand that everything in the world has its own name, and began to know that her name was "Helen Keller". Le). Since then, Helen has successively learned and mastered French, German, Latin, and Greek. Although she is deaf-blind, she can master five languages. Helen's success is called "the greatest achievement in the history of education."
< p> Helen's "muteness" was caused by loss of hearing. Her vocal cords were not damaged. When she was ten years old, Helen began to learn to speak. Because she could not hear other people's voices or her own voice, she could only use her hands to feel the teacher's throat. , lip movements, and then imitated and corrected the pronunciation thousands of times. When she said the sentence "This is warm" like a normal person for the first time, she and Teacher Sullivan realized by surprise. , in the face of their tenacious perseverance, there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome. Throughout her life, Helen's lecture tours around the world have even become an important part of her career.In addition to being a book addict, she also enjoys reading. Horse riding, swimming, rowing, and a passion for drama and performing arts. With her indomitable will, Helen learned to lip-read and could hear Mark Twain's short stories recited to her through her "hands". She completed her studies at the world-famous Harvard University with honors. University studies. Reading not only made Helen a knowledgeable scholar, but also cultivated her beautiful soul.
She likes to roam freely in the forest, and also likes to go boating on moonlit nights, relying on the scent of water plants and water lilies. She also likes to ride a tandem bicycle to experience strength and speed while flying, and likes to compete in chess like a boy... She also loves nature, standing on Niagara Falls. Although you can't see the world's most beautiful scenery flying down three thousand feet, and you can't hear the deafening roar, you can appreciate the majesty of the world's largest waterfall from the trembling in the air.
Inside. In museums and art shops, Helen can use her fingers to "observe" the joy, anger, sorrow and joy written on people's faces. She can use her dexterous fingers to feel the beauty of ancient Greek sculptures and "see" the moon from those changing lines. The freshness of the goddess Diana and the beauty of Venus. In 1937, Helen received special treatment when she visited Japan and was allowed to touch the royal art collection and the statue of the Chinese Jianzhen monk, which was regarded as a national treasure of Japan.
After Helen studied with Sullivan for three months, she began to try to express her feelings with immature words and wrote her first letter in her life. From April 1902, she began to study with Sullivan. With the help of her teacher, she began to serialize her autobiography "The Story of My Life" in an American magazine. The collection was published the next year and became a sensation in the American literary world. It was even hailed as one of the two most important contributions to world literature in 1902. 1.
Many people do not believe that such beautiful writing was actually written by a deaf-blind person. Although Mark Twain testified to this, the suspicion could not be quelled. However, Helen's life achievements provide the best answer to this: she published 14 monographs throughout her life. Over the past century, "The Story of My Life" has been translated into more than fifty languages ??and spread to every corner of the world. An expert once said that "in terms of literary achievements, it is not inferior to Rousseau's "Confessions."" If Helen's tenacious perseverance to tightly grasp the throat of fate is inspiring, then her love is even more It is a precious treasure left to the world. When she first started studying with Teacher Sullivan, the clever little Helen easily learned to spell the names of many objects around her, but she could not understand a very abstract noun like "love". The young Sullivan turned her love into incomparable patience, allowing Helen to overcome the insurmountable obstacles in the learning of blind and deaf students. While learning knowledge, little Helen also learned the love of Teacher Sullivan. With this love, 10-year-old Helen successfully raised two years of education expenses for a 5-year-old deaf-blind child. Perhaps since then, she has determined to help all the people in the world who are in need like her.
She gave love to the world, and the world rewarded her with lofty honors. In 1919, Helen's story was put on the screen by Hollywood, with her starring in it. In 1955, she received an honorary degree from Harvard University, becoming the first woman in history to receive this honor.
Since Helen’s childhood, every U.S. president has invited her to the White House. She has also been named by the government as one of the thirty outstanding people in the United States who have made outstanding contributions to the country. She has been honored by the U.S. President personally. He was awarded the "Freedom Award" and was hailed as a senior citizen of the United States. In 1959, the United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" campaign named after her globally to fund deaf-blind children around the world. In 1960, the play "The Miracle Worker", which described her growth experience, won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a movie. In the same year, the American Overseas Blind Foundation announced the award of the "International Helen Keller Prize" on Helen's 80th birthday to reward those who have made outstanding contributions to the cause of blind people. On June 1, 1968, 89-year-old Helen ended her legendary life. In the process of human development, we have many valuable similarities. People of different skin colors and under different systems in the world can draw strength and inspire fighting spirit from Helen's story. This is because the spirit of not being afraid of difficulties and having the courage to fight against one's own weaknesses has always been the unique spiritual wealth of mankind.
Source: "Beijing Youth Daily" June 27, 2002 Helen Keller (1880-1968): The great and famous writer Mark Twain said: "There were two people worthy of attention in the 19th century. , one is Napoleon, and the other is Helen Keller. "The American "Times" selected Helen Keller as "one of the top 10 American idols of the 20th century." In Helen Keller's 88 years of life, she only enjoyed light and sound like ordinary people for the first 19 months of her life, and then she fell into darkness and silence. However, it was such a blind and mute disabled person who created a miracle in life. Not only did she learn to read and speak, she also completed her studies at Harvard University's Radcliffe College with astonishing perseverance, becoming the first blind and deaf person in human history to receive a bachelor's degree in literature. Not only that, she also She traveled around improving the working and living conditions of blind people in the United States and raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind and the American Overseas Blind Foundation (now known as Helen Keller International). She created extraordinary achievements and received numerous honors. The biggest inspiration she left to people is that if you bravely accept the challenges of life, you can win the light in life. This book is a detailed account of Helen Keller's life and is considered to be one of the two most important contributions in the history of literature.
(3) Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American educator with disabilities. She became blind and deaf due to scarlet fever when she was 19 months old. Later, through the efforts of her mentor Anne Sullivan, she learned to speak and began to communicate with other people. and graduated from Harvard University.
Helen Keller is a famous American writer and educator. In 1882, when she was more than one year old, she suffered brain damage due to a high fever. From then on, she could not see with her eyes, could not hear with her ears, and later, she could not even speak.
When she was seven years old, her family hired a tutor for her - Teacher Sullivan. Sullivan was almost blind when she was a child and knew the pain of losing sight. Under her painstaking guidance, Helen learned sign language by touching her hands, learned to read by touching Braille cards, and later learned to speak by touching other people's lips with her hands.
Teacher Sullivan allowed Helen to gradually get closer to nature. With the loving care of her teacher, Helen overcame the obstacles of blindness and deafness and completed college.
In 1936, Helen and her teacher passed away, and Helen was very sad. She knew that without the love of Teacher Sullivan, there would be no Helen today, and she was determined to carry forward the love given to her by her teacher. As a result, Helen traveled around the world and devoted herself to serving those who were less fortunate.
In 1968, Helen died at the age of eighty-nine. After her death, she moved the whole world because of her strong will and outstanding contributions. People everywhere have carried out activities to commemorate her.
(4) Introduction to Helen Keller’s teacher Anne Sullivan: Anne was born on April 14, 1866, in a small village in western Massachusetts, USA. Her parents fled to America in the early 1860s from their hometown of Ireland, which had been experiencing drought for more than 20 years. Relying on his father's work as a part-time laborer on a nearby farm, the problem of making ends meet was finally solved. However, misfortune surrounded the family. When Annie was more than 2 years old, she suffered from severe trachoma. Poverty delayed treatment, Anne's eyesight deteriorated, and her temper became violent.
In 1874, Anne's mother died of tuberculosis, and her alcoholic father cruelly abandoned her, her brother Jimmy, and her sister Mary. Later, under the "temporary adoption" and "planning" of other members of the father's family, the 3-year-old sister Mary was adopted by her aunt, while the 10-year-old Anne and 7-year-old Jimmy were sent away from home in February 1876. Thousands of miles away, the Deshiburg Poor Home is a large hospital that accommodates more than 900 elderly, weak, sick and disabled people.
The nightmare has just begun. Three months later, on May 30, 1876, his younger brother Jimmy died in the almshouse due to congenital tuberculosis of the buttocks. For quite a long time, few people in this world cared about little Annie's sadness and loneliness, until Father Barbara, a new arrival in the almshouse, appeared and presided over Saturday prayers and Sunday Mass ceremonies for the girls' dormitory.
One day, Father Barbara said: "Annie, you shouldn't stay here anymore, I'm going to take you away." Father Barbara had a friend who worked at Catholic Charities Hospital in Rowe County, Massachusetts. doctor. At that time, Anne's eyesight was already very bad. The priest first takes Anne to see the eye disease. In this way, 11-year-old Anne left the almshouse and was hospitalized for treatment of eye diseases. But unfortunately, the operation failed, and Anne's vision was even worse than before the operation: only light perception was left, which was close to blindness. Although several remedial operations were performed later, they all ended in failure. The doctor declared that he had tried his best and there was nothing more he could do. Anne must be discharged from the hospital. At this time, Father Barbara had been ordered by the religious order to go to a foreign country to preach. Blind Annie was helpless and was sent back to the almshouse - a place she hated deeply.
Annie's world fell into loneliness and darkness. She longs for a hopeful life and a turning point in fate. The turning point came in 1880. Once, Anne inquired that the almshouse was about to receive an inspection team, headed by Franc Champagne. Anne decided to make good use of this day that might change her destiny. That day, Anne finally let go of her timidity and shouted to the inspection team what she had long stored in her heart: Mr. Champagne! I want to go to school! Please let me go to school! Mercy from God, God gave Anne mercy. On October 3, 1880, Anne entered the campus of Perkins School for the Blind in a carriage. 14-year-old Annie is in the same class as a group of 5 and 6-year-old children, because Annie, who has never been to school, can't even write her own name, let alone any reading ability. The poor child was nicknamed "Old Annie" by her classmates. After a long period of training in the blind school, with the help of her teacher, Annie grew up. When the school holidays came, Anne even wanted to find a job within her ability. Later, the school helped Annie find a job organizing and cleaning hotels in South Boston. When Anne was cleaning the room, she often chatted with the tenants, and had the opportunity to meet a tenant who enthusiastically recommended a doctor to Anne to treat eye diseases - God once again brought Dr. Bradford to Anne. After two surgeries, Anne's vision was restored! Although her vision was still blurred and she was "semi-blind", Anne was already very content!
This year, Anne was 16 years old.
In August 1886, Anne graduated from the blind school. Where to go next? While Anne was worrying about the way out, one day at the end of August, Anne received a letter from the principal of Perkins School for the Blind at the home of her adoptive mother, Mrs. Hobkin -
"Dear Anne: How are you? Send me a letter from Mr. Keller, please read it carefully. Mr. Keller is seeking a governess for his little daughter, who is deaf, mute, and blind. Please tell me if you are interested.
Please say hello to Mrs. Hobkin! Happy to your friend Ananos"
It was this short letter that changed Anne's and Helen's fate.
On March 3, 1887, Anne Sullivan came to Tuscumbia, a small town in Alabama, after a long and bumpy journey, and met Helen Keller (who was 14 years younger than herself). Helen (born June 27, 1880). This is Teacher Sullivan's first student in her life and also her only student.
Word explanation
Twisting (cuō niǎn) is a strip made of thread, paper, etc. Hope (qǐ pàn) hope; hope. Reproduce (fán yǎn) to gradually increase or expand. Migration (qiān xǐ) migration. Foraging (mì shí) refers to birds and animals searching for food everywhere. yóu rán ér shēng (yóu rán ér shēng) describes thoughts and feelings that arise naturally.
Huatuanjinchu (huā tuán jǐn cù) describes a colorful and gorgeous image. Too beautiful (měi bù shèng shōu) There are so many beautiful things that I can’t take them all at once. Fán huā sì jǐn means numerous brightly colored flowers, like beautiful brocade; describing beautiful scenery and beautiful things. Sudden change (fēng yún tū biàn) refers to a sudden and huge change in the situation. Indescribable (bù kě míng zhuàng) cannot be described in words. Name, say it. LUò yīng bīn fēn (Luò yīng bīn fēn) describes the beautiful scene of fallen flowers falling one after another. Meditation (míng sī xiá xiǎng) means to think from a distance for a long time and from multiple angles after encountering a problem; to think or imagine deeply and far away; long-term longing may refer to daydreams and fantasies that transcend time and space. Qiqi Ai Ai (qī qī ài ài): describes stuttering. Zhou Chang of the Western Han Dynasty stuttered and often said "Qiqi" repeatedly. Wei and Deng Ai of the Three Kingdoms stuttered and often said "Ai Ai" repeatedly.