Helen Keller Thesis

Helen Keller Essay On March 3rd, 1887, Helen Keller had the most important day of her life. On that day, she met Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Keller was soon to be seven years old, when she first met her teacher. Having Sullivan there with her, teaching her new things, out was a life changing experience for Keller. An average life for a young girl that has disabilities would be just sitting in the house guessing her parents signs, “I guessed vaguely from my mother's signs and from the hurrying to and from in the house that something unusual is about to happen…” On that day forward, her life was going to change forever. She explains her life as a ship out in the middle of the sea, with a dense fog surrounding her. “Have you ever been at sea

I stretched out my hand as i supposed to my mother. Someone took it, and i was caught yo and held close in the arms of her who had come to reveal all the things to me,and, more than all things else, to love me.” When Miss Sullivan arrived at Helens house for the first time, she knew that she wasn’t going to be in harm. She knew from the start that she was going to have a strong relationship with her. Sullivan gave Keller a rag doll, and that was one of the first word she learned from her. “One day, while i was playing with my new doll, Miss Sullivan put my big rag doll into my lap also, Spelled “d-o-l-l” and tried to make me understand that “d-o-l-l” applied to both.” Sullivan helped her out in numerous ways, and without her help, Helen Keller probably would have never been heard of now days, but because of her teacher, just about everyone has heard the name

She taught her the differences and similarities in life about those things as well. But the most important thing was that on that day that Sullivan showed up on her front porch, she can still remover almost every word she learned that day, and with those words she learned, she was able to say that her life turned around and went down the right path by learning all of these things and not having to struggle through life as much as she would have without Miss Sullivan. “I learned a great many new words that day. I do not remember what they all were; nut i do know that mother, father, sister, teacher we’re among them words that were to make the world blossom for me...It would have been difficult to find a happier child than i was as i lay in my crib at the close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought me, and for the first time longed for a new day to