Helen+Keller

Helen Keller was a woman who had a troubled life throughout her childhood and facing learning new, and unfamiliar languages; sign language. By getting a teacher she overcame her challenges and tragic way of life. Helen exemplified perserveranced by overcoming her rough childhood, Helen Keller had a bad attitude and overcame her challenges.

Helen had many things that made her childhood bad but im going to tell you the three main ones. As a child she developed a high fever, it left her ill with blindness and deafness as a result. Helen also could not communicate to others so she became very angry not being able to get her thoughts across or hear other people and acted out in uncontrollable ways. People called this young girl "feebleminded" and didnt want to be around Helen and her unpredictable disasters of acting out. Even her other relatives attempted to convence Little Kellers' parents to get rid of her and carry on with a "normal family".

She also had a bad attitude which scared her persinality and the way people thought about this young, hurt child. She had bad table manners; eating with her hands, throwing food, stealing food from others. Those are all examples of how she acted at the table while eating. Little Helen Keller also claimed to act like an animal. She kicked, bit, scratched, hit, and punched others. This child refused to have her clothes straightened or her hair combed, she acted violently when her parents tried to do those things.

Little Hellen overcame her challenges though, she perservered by overcoming the details i just informed you on by her teacher and Helen finding a breakthrough; sign language. Anne Sullivan her techer who had experienced Helens pain, and wanted to help taught her how to communicate with the world Helen grew apart from and wanted so badly to talk and tell things to. Also, Helen was enrolled Radcliffe College and graduated with honors. Radcliffe College was one of the most famous schools in America and she was the first deaf-blind woman to graduate especially with honors.

Helen became world famous because she wrote a book about her life leading up to that time called "The Story Of My Life" while she was in college. The money she earned from selling her book got her a nice little cozy home for her teacher Anne and herself. Although Helen had challenges with communication and had a rough past, she overcame them and became famous and her herself was a definition of brave and encouraging to other children with or without disabilities like herself. Helen became famous, and known worldwide of her great successes, but she couldnt have overcame so many things if they hadent happened. Movies, and book/articles were made from her life, and she continued writing some books after college.Helen also took more speech lessons so she could make public speeches about issues that concerned her. She and Anne toured the country giving lectures about the teaching methods Anne used and giving insperational messages and answering questions. In 1992, Helen helped organize the World Conference on Work for the Blind and persuading President Herbert Hoover and his wife to give a reception conference. During world war two Helen made a cross country tour of army hospitals, visiting those who had been blinded.

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