Helen believes that the tragedy of vision and hearing loss often occurs in families that cannot treat their children in time because of poverty. In order to eliminate the evil phenomenon caused by social inequality, Helen joined the National Socialist Party of the United States and the International Federation of Industrial Workers (IWW) and became a radical socialist. I have written two articles, How I became a socialist [1] and Why I joined IWW[2], to illustrate my motivation. However, western history textbooks often praise the story of Helen Keller's struggle with illness in her early years, but the fact that she became a socialist as an adult is deliberately ignored. I mentioned this problem in the book "Lies told by the teacher-mistakes made in American history textbooks" [3].
Helen Keller's main works include If I Can See Three Days [4], My Life, My Teacher and so on. Helen Keller wrote 14 works in her life. My life is her first novel. As soon as the work is published; It immediately caused a sensation in the United States and was called "an unparalleled masterpiece in the history of world literature". More than 0/00 editions of/kloc have been published, which has a great influence in the world. This book is compiled by Helen Keller's My Life, out of the dark and Teacher, and the famous essay "If you give me three days of light" published by Atlantic Monthly. This paper comprehensively and systematically introduces Helen Keller's rich, vivid, true and great life, and many words are the first time to meet readers in China. "If you give me three days of light" is the eighth lesson in the fifth grade and the ninth lesson in the sixth grade of Jiangsu Education Publishing House.
In the 20th century, a unique life individual shocked the world in her brave way. She-Helen Keller, a woman who lives in the dark but brings light to mankind, a lonely weak woman who has spent 88 spring and autumn years of her life, but survived 87 years of dull, silent and speechless.
However, it is such a claustrophobic person who graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University. He spent all his life running around and set up a charity to benefit the disabled, and was selected as one of the top ten hero idols in the 20th century in America by Time magazine.
Creating this miracle depends on an indomitable heart. Helen accepted the challenge of life, embraced the world with love, faced difficulties with amazing perseverance, finally found the bright side of life in the dark, and finally extended her loving hands to the world. Helen Keller (June 27th 1 880-65438+June10968) is a famous blind and deaf woman writer and speaker in the 20th century in America. With a strong will, she was admitted to Radcliffe College of Harvard University, became the first blind and deaf person in the world to complete her college education, and was selected by Time magazine in the United States.
If you give me three days of light is Helen Keller's masterpiece of prose. From the perspective of a weak woman who is physically disabled and determined, she warned healthy people to cherish life and cherish everything given by the creator. In addition, The Story of My Life included in this book is an autobiographical work of Helen Keller, which is regarded as "an unparalleled masterpiece in the history of world literature".
Helen Keller was blind and deaf due to illness since childhood, but she made unremitting efforts to overcome great difficulties and completed her college studies. He wrote more than a dozen works in his life and devoted himself to social activities to help disabled children, protect women's rights and interests and strive for racial equality. 1964 won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Helen Keller was born in Tasmania, Alabama, USA. She was born smart. Less than six months after her birth, she was able to say things like "tea" clearly and was more sensitive to things around her.
Just one year old, one evening, before the sun went down, my mother put a basin of hot water for Helen Keller to scrub. However, when her mother picked Helen Keller up from the bathtub and put her on her lap, she was trying to wrap herself in a big towel. Helen Keller's eyes were suddenly attracted by the swaying shadow on the floor. She looked at it curiously, absorbed in it, her eyes were motionless, and she couldn't help but reach out and pounce on it, as if to catch it.
At that time, although my mother had noticed Helen Keller's eyes, in her eyes, the shadow of the tree was just a normal natural phenomenon, and there was nothing to make a fuss about. Therefore, she never imagined that Helen Keller would lean forward with such strength. As a result, she accidentally slipped away and let Helen Keller fall to the ground and cry. Knowing that her daughter was frightened, the mother quickly held Helen Keller in her arms, coaxed her for a long time and cheated her for a long time before Helen Keller calmed down.
Soon after, my mother quietly recalled what happened, and she found that Helen Keller seemed to be particularly observant. Usually, a one-year-old baby should be ignorant and have no tendency to try to understand anything deeply, but Helen Keller has a delicate mind and even wants to feel the wonder of change with her own limbs. Of course, compared with adults, Helen Keller's performance is not mature. If compared with other babies, it can't be special.
And parents are lucky enough to have a gifted child, of course, they are proud! Whenever relatives and friends visit home, they just don't talk about their daughters. Once the topic turns to Helen Keller, the mother's contented joy will naturally emerge from her speech.
But how long can this joy last? While her parents were talking happily about Helen Keller's bright future, Helen Keller fell ill inexplicably, which not only took away her parents' hopes, but also turned Helen Keller into a little girl who could not see or hear, and her temper became more violent!
Poor Helen Keller, how to face a world without light and sound? This is really a headache. It is not easy to educate a child with perfect facial features at ordinary times, and Helen Keller is blind and deaf! Perhaps parents can guess and imagine Helen Keller's mood, but they will never understand it, just as Helen Keller can't understand normal life, they really can't understand it.
At first, my parents tried again and again by experiment. Although I have failed countless times, I have found many essentials after a long time. In addition to passively guessing Helen Keller's gestures, they sometimes teach Helen Keller to express her emotions with body movements.
In addition, Helen Keller also learned to feel the things around her with touch. In this way, little by little, after four or five years, Helen Keller can appreciate everything that children can feel with their eyes and ears through touch. It's just that parents are not experts in disability education, so the body language that Helen Keller learned can only be understood by parents, not by outsiders.
Parents who have always cared about their daughters have always been concerned about this issue, especially thinking that their daughters will be old and weak one day. If Helen Keller still can't communicate with outsiders, then the future experience of Helen Keller will be very tragic. So, when Helen Keller was seven years old, they invited a specially trained Sullivan teacher from other places.
Miss Sullivan and Helen Keller hit it off. They got along well within a few days of knowing each other, and Helen Keller also learned to read from Miss Sullivan.
One day, the teacher wrote the word "water" on Helen Keller's palm. Helen Keller somehow failed to write it down. The teacher knows where Helen Keller's difficulties lie. She took Helen Keller to the fountain and asked her to put her little hand under the fountain and let the cool spring water spill on her hand. Then, Teacher Sullivan wrote the word "water" on Helen Keller's palm, and Helen Keller firmly remembered it from now on and will never be confused again. Helen later recalled: "Somehow, the secret of language was suddenly revealed, and I finally knew that water was a substance that flowed through my palm." The word "drink" awakened my soul and gave me light, hope and happiness.
However, Miss Sullivan thinks that just knowing how to read without speaking is still inconvenient for communication. Helen Keller, however, was deaf and blind since she was a child, unable to hear other people's voices or see their mouths. Therefore, although she is not dumb, she can't speak.
In order to overcome this difficulty, Miss Sullivan found an expert for Helen Keller, who taught her to feel the change of mouth shape when others spoke with her hands, and to learn pronunciation through the difference between inhaling and exhaling through the nasal cavity. Of course, it wasn't easy, but Helen Keller did it. Helen Keller, a blind writer, not only broke through the functional barrier and learned to speak, but also devoted her life to giving speeches to disabled people everywhere, encouraging them to affirm themselves and aspire to be a disabled person. Helen Keller's love not only gives the disabled full confidence, but also inspires people all over the world to face up to the welfare of the disabled and establish service institutions to help them live a healthy and happy life.
Helen Keller's masterpiece "If Give Me Three Days of Light", from the perspective of a weak woman with physical disability and firm will, warns the able-bodied people to cherish life and everything given by the creator. In addition, The Story of My Life included in this book is an autobiographical work of Helen Keller, which is regarded as "an unparalleled masterpiece in the history of world literature".
1968, Helen died at the age of 89. She devoted her life's service to the disabled people all over the world. She wrote many books and her story was made into a movie. Teacher Sullivan gave her the most precious love. She spread this love to all the unfortunate people and brought them hope. After her death, because of her strong will and outstanding contribution, people all over the world were moved to hold activities to commemorate her.
Helen Keller was blind and deaf due to illness since childhood, but she made unremitting efforts to overcome great difficulties and completed her college studies. He wrote more than a dozen works in his life and devoted himself to social activities to help disabled children, protect women's rights and interests and strive for racial equality. 1964 won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her deeds have been made into movies twice.
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[Edit this paragraph] The life of Helen Keller
Born in mbia, Tuscany, Alabama, USA on June 27th, 1880.
1882 65438+ 10 was blind and deaf due to scarlet fever.
1in March, 887, Anne Sullivan Messi became Keller's teacher.
June 1899 was admitted to Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University.
1902–1903 wrote and published My Life (partially translated into My Life Story).
1June, 904, graduated from university with honors.
1908–1913 wrote My Heaven and Earth (also translated as The World in My Life), Song of the Stone Wall and Out of the Darkness.
19 16 suffered from marital misfortune.
19 19 was invited to star in a movie in Hollywood.
1924 became the main leader of the American Foundation for the Blind.
1929 wrote about my old age.
1930 Travel to Britain.
1931–1933 was awarded an honorary degree by Temple University. Visit France, Yugoslavia and Britain.
Teacher Anne Sullivan passed away on120 October.
1942–1952 visited 13 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
1953, The Invincible Head, a documentary about Keller's life and work, was released in the United States.
1955, she received an honorary degree from Harvard University for her book teacher, Anne Sullivan Messi.
1959 The United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" World Campaign.
1960 "Helen Keller" Award awarded by American Overseas Blind Foundation.
1964 won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1968 June 1 passed away.
Helen Keller seems destined to create miracles for mankind, or God sent her into this world to show the dignity and greatness of the disabled to ordinary people. When she was one and a half years old, she suddenly had acute cerebral congestion, and her high fever for several days kept her in a coma. When she woke up, her eyes burned blind, her ears burned deaf, and her dexterous mouth could not speak. From then on, she fell into a dark and silent world and an abyss of pain.
1March 3, 887, which is a very important day for Helen. On this day, the family invited a teacher for her-Miss Anne Sullivan. Anne taught her to write and sign language. When Mr. Janagno of Perkins School for the Blind was surprised to read Helen's complete and true letter in French, he wrote: "No one can imagine how surprised and happy I am. I have always believed in her ability, but it is hard to believe that she has achieved such good results in three months of study. In the United States, it takes a year for others to reach this level. " At this time, Helen was only 9 years old. However, it is almost impossible for a person to communicate with others in a silent and dark world, because every exit has been tightly closed to her. But Helen is a miracle. She went from hell to heaven step by step, but the difficulty of this journey exceeded anyone's imagination. When she learns pronunciation, she needs to use her sense of touch to understand the trembling of her throat and the movement of her mouth when she pronounces, which is often inaccurate. To this end, Helen has to practice her pronunciation repeatedly, sometimes for hours at a time. Failure and fatigue made her haggard, and a strong man shed tears of despair for it. However, she never flinched, worked hard day and night, and finally was able to speak "Dad", "Mom" and "Sister" fluently. The whole family gave her a surprise hug, and even her favorite dog seemed to understand her call and ran to lick her hand.
1894 In the summer, Helen joined the American Association for the Advancement of Language Teaching for the Deaf and was arranged to study mathematics, science, French and German in Humason School for the Deaf. Within a few months, she will be able to talk freely in German. In less than a year, she finished reading the German version of William Tell. Teachers who teach French don't know sign language letters and have to dictate; Nevertheless, Helen quickly mastered French and read the novel The Forced Doctor twice. During her stay in new york, Helen made many friends in the literary world. Mark Twain read her wonderful short stories and they established a sincere friendship. Dr. Holmes read her a collection of poems, Rolling Beans, in his quiet home by the Merrimack River. When he read the last two pages, Holmes put a slave statue in her hand. The chain on the crouching slave just fell off, and Holmes said to Helen, "She is the liberator of your thoughts." The doctor refers to Miss Anne. Helen's excitement, beautiful thoughts and feelings about the world, meaningful deep love and down-to-earth pursuit are deeply rooted in her heart like the seeds of spring. Helen said confidently from an early age, "One day, I will go to college! I'm going to Harvard University! " This day has finally arrived. Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University arranged her entrance examination in a special way. I saw that she skillfully touched the raised braille with her hand and then answered the question with a typewriter. After 9 hours, all subjects passed, and she got excellent grades in English and German. Helen began her college life eagerly.
1June, 904, Helen graduated from Radcliffe College with honors. Two years later, she was appointed as the chairman of the Massachusetts Committee for the Blind and began to do social work for the blind. She receives visiting blind people every day, and she has to reply to letters flying in like snow. Later, she toured all over the United States to promote the implementation of education programs and treatment programs for the deaf and blind. 192 1, the American Foundation for the Blind was finally established. Helen is one of the leaders of this organization, and she has been working hard to strengthen the work of the foundation. In the busy work, she never put down her pen and finished 14 books. My Life, Song of the Stone Wall, out of the dark, Optimism, etc. Have had a worldwide impact. Helen's last work was Teacher, for which she collected notes and letters for 20 years, but all these and three-quarters of the manuscripts were burned in a fire, as well as the Braille library and exquisite craft gifts from various countries. A different person might be disheartened, but Helen learned a lesson from the painful experience and was determined to finish it. She sat quietly in front of the typewriter and began another difficult trek. 10 years later, Helen finished the manuscript. She is very happy that this book is a gift for Teacher Anne, and Teacher Anne is very proud of it.
1956165438+1October 15 The curtain on a plaque erected at the gate of Perkins School for the Blind in America was lifted by Helen with trembling hands, which read: In memory of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Messi. This is not an ordinary plaque, but for those who have written outstanding chapters in the history of human civilization. Indeed, Helen devoted her life to the welfare and education of the blind and won the respect of people all over the world. The United Nations also launched the "Helen Keller" World Campaign. On June 1968, Helen Keller, a deaf-mute blind scholar, writer and educator who wrote a hymn of brilliant life in the history of human civilization, passed away surrounded by flowers. However, her indomitable spirit of struggle and her legendary life will go down in history forever. As the famous writer Mark Twain said, "/kloc-there were two great figures in the 9th century, one was Napoleon and the other was Helen Keller." My dark light is a book about the sublimation of human spirit. Helen Keller was born deaf and blind, and lived in a lonely situation isolated from ordinary people in her early years, which is so important for a person's spiritual development.
With the love of the God of all mankind, she can get in touch with others. Spiritual development led her to start a writing career.
Helen Keller is regarded as one of the most inspiring writers in this century.
[Edit this paragraph] Helen Keller's analysis
What would I think if I stood at the end of my life and the spark of my life was about to go out? How? You will also sigh that life is short and fragile, and regret not cherishing it? Make good use of your eyes as if you would be blind tomorrow. Listen to the beauty of music, listen to the songs of birds, and listen to the powerful tunes of the orchestra, as if you will be deaf tomorrow. Touch whatever you want, as if your touch will decline tomorrow. Smell the fragrance of all the flowers and taste every mouthful, as if you can't smell or taste it tomorrow. People! Why do you always have to wait until you lose it before you regret it? Why are we always so greedy, seldom cherish what we have, but long for what we don't have! Perhaps, you always think that God has given us these beautiful things, even life, for granted. But have you ever thought, when one day, what you have, even your life, will be lost, what will you do, regret or give up on yourself? If so, it would be sad. Yes, I can't make the same mistakes as others. I would rather cherish 1968. /kloc-On the afternoon of June, 0, Helen Keller died in her sleep at the age of 89. Keller was deaf and blind at 18 months after birth, but miraculously lived his life.
Helen's misfortune
1880 On June 27th, a baby girl was born in Taskabiya, a small town in northern Alabama. This is Helen Keller. She is good at listening and articulate, and her parents expect her to be a musician! However, when she was one and a half years old, a serious illness (orangutan ear fever) took away her hearing and vision, and then she lost the ability to express herself in words, which made her feel like she was in a black prison. When she was five years old, she added another sister to her family: Midlet. Helen can't eat cookies at once every time. When she put the doll in the cradle, there was something soft in it. Every time she wants to climb on her mother's knee, that soft thing is on it again. Once, she knocked over her sister's cradle. If her mother hadn't arrived in time, her sister might have died. But for all this, little Helen, who can't see or hear, has no regrets. Her temper is getting worse. Until miss Sullivan arrived.
Helen's transformation
Because Helen was deaf and blind from childhood, her family had to ask a teacher to educate her. With the help of Mr. Janak Nais, Dean of Perkins College, a teacher named Anne Sullivan was sent to tutor Helen. It was Sullivan who changed Helen's life. After a long train journey, Mr. Anne Sullivan arrived safely in Tuscany by carriage on March 3rd, 1987. When Miss Sullivan came to Helen's door, she saw Helen like a kitten falling into the water: her brown hair was messy and her delicate clothes were dirty. In Helen's memory, people who come by carriage often have things like candy and toys in their suitcases. So, she took out everything. Sullivan was surprised and quickly got the suitcase back, but Helen was very angry and rushed to her. If Helen's father hadn't stopped her, the two of them would have rolled to the ground. The next morning, there was another breakfast fight. The following events softened Helen's unruly character. Finally, Helen gave in. She learned to speak and graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in America. She became a famous writer and educator proficient in English, French, German, Latin and Greek. She traveled all over the United States and the world to raise money for schools for the blind and devoted her life to the welfare and education of the blind. She has won the praise of people all over the world and won many government awards.
Helen Keller international company
Helen Keller International. Inc (HKI for short)
Helen Keller International Organization was founded by Helen Keller and other Americans in 19 15. Its purpose is to help the government prevent blindness, focusing on the education of blind children who are integrated into the mainstream of society and the rehabilitation of adult blind people who can live independently. HKI has made great efforts to help developing countries and improve their ability to make their own plans. It is also engaged in the research and prevention of dry eye, trachoma and other infectious eye diseases caused by malnutrition and vitamin A deficiency, and also provides surgical services for cataract blindness and vision recovery. Where conditions permit, HKI organically combines blindness prevention projects with primary medical services.
Helen Keller's spirit is worth learning!
(2) 1880 On June 27th, Helen Keller was born in a small town in northern Alabama, USA. Her life has set an example for people to fight against fate.
Helen Keller is a writer and educator admired all over the world. Although fate robbed her of her eyesight and hearing, this woman seized her by the throat with diligence and perseverance. Her name became a symbol of perseverance, and her legendary life became a great spiritual force to inspire people to overcome bad luck.
■ "If you give me three days of light, the first person I want to see is my dear teacher."
At the age of one year and seven months, the sudden high fever caused by scarlet fever made Helen blind and deaf, and became a blind, deaf and dumb disabled person. Because the deaf-mute child can't get access to the correct information, the window of the soul is imprisoned, which leads to her bad temper and bad temper. At the age of seven, Anne Sullivan came to her side. She accompanied Helen for half a century and guided her out of endless darkness and loneliness with love and wisdom. The miracle created by Helen in her life is inseparable from this outstanding young educator for deaf children. Helen expressed her love for Sullivan in her masterpiece If you give me three days of light: "If you give me three days of light, the first thing I see is my dear teacher."
On the day when Sullivan went to Helen's home as a tutor, she gave her a doll and slowly spelled the word "d-o-l-l" repeatedly with her finger on Helen's little hand. Helen became interested in this game at once. She imitated the teacher's actions again and again, and began to understand that everything in the world had its own name, and began to know that her name was "Helen Keller". Since then, Helen has learned and mastered French, German, Latin and Greek. Although deaf and blind, she can master five languages. Helen's success is called "the greatest achievement in the history of education".
Helen's "dumb" is caused by hearing loss, and her vocal cords are not damaged. At the age of ten, Helen began to learn to speak. Because she can't hear others and her own voice, she can only feel the movement of her throat and lips when the teacher pronounces, and then imitate and correct her voice thousands of times. When she said "it's warm" for the first time like a normal person, both she and Sullivan realized that there was no insurmountable difficulty in the face of their tenacious perseverance. In Helen's life, she even took traveling around the world as an important part of her career.
Besides reading, she also likes riding, swimming and boating. She loves the performing arts of drama. With indomitable will, Helen learned to lip-read, and she could hear the short stories recited by Mark Twain with both hands, and completed her studies at Harvard University, a world-famous university, with excellent results. Reading not only makes Helen a knowledgeable scholar, but also cultivates her beautiful mind.
She likes to walk in the forest with the reins, and she also likes to go boating on a moonlit night, and she can tell her direction by the smell of water plants and water lilies. She also likes to ride a tandem bike for a ride, experience strength and speed in galloping, and like to fight wits and bravely in chess matches like boys ... She also loves nature. Although standing in front of Niagara Falls, she can't see the beauty of the world and hear the deafening roar, but she can appreciate the grandeur of the world's largest waterfall from the tremor of the air.
In museums and art shops, Helen can feel the beauty of ancient Greek sculptures with her fingers, just like observing the emotions written on people's faces, and "see" the freshness of Di Anna, the goddess of the moon, and the beauty of Venus from those changing lines. 1937, Helen received special courtesy when she visited Japan, and was allowed to touch the royal art collection and the statue of monk Jian Zhen in China, which was regarded as a national treasure of Japan.
■ Mark Twain called her and Napoleon the two most outstanding figures in19th century.
After studying with Sullivan for three months, Helen began to try to express her feelings in immature words and wrote the first letter in her life. From April 1902, with the help of Sullivan, she began to serialize her autobiography "The Story of My Life" in an American magazine. The following year, after its publication, it caused a sensation in the American literary world, and was even hailed as one of the two most important contributions of world literature from 65438 to 0902.
Many people don't believe that such beautiful words were written by a deaf and blind person. Although Mark Twain testified for this, it still can't calm people's doubts. However, Helen's achievements in her life give the best answer to this: she published 14 monographs in her life. In the past century, my life story has been translated into more than 50 languages and spread all over the world. Some experts once said that "in terms of literary achievements, it is not inferior to Rousseau's Confessions." If Helen's indomitable perseverance is inspiring, then her love is a precious wealth left to the world. When she first started studying with Sullivan, the clever little Helen easily learned to spell the names of many things around her, but she couldn't understand the very abstract noun "love". The young Sullivan turned her love into unparalleled patience, which enabled Helen to overcome the insurmountable obstacles in the study of blind and deaf students. While learning knowledge, little Helen also learned Sullivan's love. With this love, 10-year-old Helen successfully raised two years' education expenses for a five-year-old deaf-mute child. Maybe from then on, she made up her mind to help all the people in the world who need help like her.
She gives love to the world, and the world returns her lofty honor. 19 19, Helen's story was put on the screen by Hollywood and starred by herself. 1955, she received an honorary degree from Harvard University, becoming the first woman in history to receive this honor.
Since Helen was a child, every American president has invited her to visit the White House. She is also called by the government as one of the 30 outstanding people in the United States who have made outstanding contributions to the country. She won the "Freedom Award" personally awarded by the President of the United States and was praised as a senior citizen of the United States. From 65438 to 0959, the United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" campaign named after her around the world to help deaf children around the world. 1960, The Miracle Creator, which describes her growing experience, won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a movie. In the same year, on the occasion of Helen's eightieth birthday, the American Overseas Foundation for the Blind announced that it would award the International Helen Keller Award to those who have made outstanding contributions to the cause of the blind. 1 June, 9681day, 89-year-old Helen finished her legendary life.
In the process of human development, there are many valuable similarities. People of different colors and systems in the world can draw strength from Helen's story and inspire their fighting spirit. This is because the spirit of fighting against one's own weaknesses regardless of difficulties will always be the spiritual wealth of mankind.