The Story of My Life
by:
Helen Keller (author)
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf and blind person to graduate from college.As a child Helen's parents believed that she would never be able to speak or learn it was only her teacher, Anne Sullivan, that broke...
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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf and blind person to graduate from college.As a child Helen's parents believed that she would never be able to speak or learn it was only her teacher, Anne Sullivan, that broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780893753689 (0893753688)
Publish date: June 1st 1980
Publisher: Watermill Press
Pages no: 152
Edition language: English
I've given this 3 stars for the fact that some of it was interesting, not because I liked it. The first half of the book was interesting. It was mostly focussed on Helen's blindness and deafness and how she learned to overcome it with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan. There were also a few p...
Reading Helen Keller remind us what it means to be human , to live and to love , How could a blind-deaf girl learn to speak five languages while we still use our cell phones to remind us of an important event or to make simple calculations , how could she read poetry in these five languages while we...