Sex: Female
Birth Year: 1880 - June 1, 1968
Birthplace: Tuscumbia Township
Nationality: United States
In the afternoon of June 1, 1968, Helen Keller passed away in her sleep at the age of 87 years. Ms. Keller became deaf and blind at 18 months after her birth, yet miraculously lived out her life.
Helen Keller was born in 1880 in a town called Tuscumbia in northern Alabama. When she was a year and a half old, a serious illness took away her sight and hearing, and then she lost her ability to speak. Yet it was in this dark and lonely world that she surprisingly learned to read and speak, and graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in the U.S., where she became a renowned writer and educator with a vast knowledge of five languages: English, French, German, Latin, and Greek. She traveled throughout the United States and the world to raise funds for schools for the blind, dedicating her life to the welfare and education of the blind. She won the praise of people all over the world and was honored by many governments.
The most important thing for a deaf-blind person to get out of the darkness and into the light is to learn to recognize words and read. And from learning to recognize words to learn to read, but also to pay more than ordinary people's perseverance. Helen is relying on the fingers to observe the teacher Miss Sullivan's lips, with the sense of touch to comprehend the flutter of her throat, mouth movement and facial expression, which is often inaccurate. She had to practice over and over again to make herself able to pronounce a word or sentence, and Helen never gave in to failure.
In the 14 years between Helen's education at the age of 7 and her admission to Radcliffe College, she wrote a great many letters to her relatives, friends, and classmates, which were rich in content, either describing what she had seen and heard on her travels, or pouring out her own feelings, or in some cases retelling a story she had just heard. When she was studying at the university, many of the textbooks were not available in Braille, and she had to rely on others to spell out the contents of the books in her hand, so she spent much more time than the other students in studying for her assignments. While other students were out playing and singing, she was spending a lot of time trying to prepare for class.
Helen was able to come out of the darkness and achieve such high academic achievements, in addition to her own tenacity, with her teacher Sullivan's teaching is inseparable. She said "my teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan came to my home this day, is the most important day of my life", "she made my spirit liberated". It was her teacher who taught her to recognize words, to know that everything has a name, and to know what an abstract term like "love" means. After Helen was crippled by a disease at an early age, she became ignorant and perverse, almost a hopeless waste, but later she became a cultured college student, which is really a miracle. It can be said that half of this miracle was created by Helen's teacher, Anne Sullivan, the fruit of her noble dedication and scientific education methods. Miss Sullivan does not care to teach Helen what, always with a very good story, or a poem to speak clearly, her educational experience is very rich, educational methods are also different, she never locked Helen in the room for rigid, injected classroom education.
Helen used tenacity to overcome the mental pain caused by physical defects. She loved life, horseback riding, skiing, chess, and also enjoyed theater performances, loved to visit museums and places of interest, and gained knowledge from them. At the age of 21, she published her debut novel, The Story of My Life, in collaboration with her teacher. Over the next 60 years she ****wrote 14 books.