Helen Keller (188-1968), born 19 months ago, lost her sight, hearing and speaking ability due to illness. However, it was such a severely disabled person who was blind, deaf and dumb that she created a miracle in life. With the education and help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, she not only learned to read, write and speak, but also completed her four-year study at Radcliffe College of Harvard University with amazing perseverance, becoming the first blind and deaf person in human history to obtain a bachelor's degree in literature. Not only that, she also ran around to improve the working and living conditions of the blind and deaf, raised money for the American Foundation for the Blind and the American Overseas Foundation for the Blind, and established charities to actively benefit the disabled. In addition, she was diligent in writing all her life, and * * * created 14 literary works. Among them, my life, an autobiographical work written in college, aroused strong repercussions in the United States after its publication, and was hailed as "an unparalleled masterpiece in the history of world literature", which won the respect of the whole world and was regarded as one of the most appealing writers in the 2th century. Her famous works include Middle Stream, out of the dark, If I Have Three Days of Light, etc.
Fate gave her misfortune, but with indomitable spirit of struggle and persistent pursuit of happiness, she bravely moved forward and finally broke through the darkness and loneliness of life and won the light and laughter.
Her luck also lies in having good parents and, more importantly, a good teacher. Without Miss Sullivan, there would be no future for her. However, Helen Keller, with a strong personality and a beautiful heart, is a warrior in life and a bright messenger who refuses to bow to fate and is determined to drive away the darkness.
Helen Keller (June 27, 188-June 1, 1968) is an American writer who is blind and deaf, and an educator with disabilities. Born on June 27th, 188 in Tuscany mbia, a town in northern Alabama. She was deprived of her sight and hearing by scarlet fever at the age of 19 months. Soon, she lost her ability to express herself in language. However, in this dark and lonely world, she did not give up, but kept on striving for self-improvement. With the efforts of her tutor Anne Sullivan, Helen overcame the mental pain caused by physical defects with tenacious perseverance. She loves life: she can ride horses, ski and play chess. She also likes drama performances and visits museums and places of interest, from which she gains knowledge, learns to read and speak, and begins to communicate with others. Moreover, he graduated from Radcliffe College in the United States with excellent results and became a knowledgeable person, a famous writer and educator who mastered 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 awards from many governments.
Just one year old, one evening, before the sun went down, my mother put a pot of hot water to scrub Helen Keller. However, when her mother picked Helen Keller up from the bathtub and put it on her lap, she was trying to wrap herself up with a big towel, and Helen Keller's eyes were suddenly attracted by the swaying shadows on the floor. She looked at it curiously, absorbed in it, her eyes didn't move, and she couldn't help but stretch her little hand and pounce on it, as if she had to catch it.
At that time, although my mother had noticed Helen Keller's eyes, in her eyes, the shadow of trees was just a normal and natural phenomenon, so there was nothing to make a fuss about. Therefore, she never expected that Helen Keller would lean forward with such strength. As a result, she accidentally slipped away and let Helen Keller fall to the ground, crying. Knowing that her daughter was frightened, the mother quickly put Helen Keller in her arms and coaxed and cheated for a long time before Helen Keller quieted down.
After a short time, my mother quietly recalled what happened, and she found that Helen Keller's observation seemed particularly sensitive. 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 help but be special.
and parents are lucky enough to give birth to 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 robbed her parents of hope, but also made Helen Keller 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. Usually, it is not easy to educate a child with perfect facial features, not to mention that Helen Keller is blind and deaf! Perhaps, parents can guess and imagine Helen Keller's mood, but they can never understand it, just as Helen Keller can't understand the normal life, they really can't understand it.
At first, my parents tried again and again by means of experiments. Although they failed countless times, after a long time, they also found out a lot of essentials. In addition to passively guessing Helen Keller's gestures, they sometimes taught Helen Keller to express her emotions by means of body movements.
In addition, Helen Keller also learned to use touch to feel the things around her. In this way, little by little, four or five years later, Helen Keller can appreciate everything that children can feel with their eyes and ears by touching. It's just that parents are not experts in disability education, so only parents can understand the body language that Helen Keller learned, but it's hard to say for outsiders.
Parents who have always cared about their daughters have always been concerned about this problem, especially when they think that they will be old and weak one day. If Helen Keller still can't communicate with outsiders, what will happen to Helen Keller in the future will be very tragic. So, when Helen Keller was seven years old, they invited a specially trained Sullivan teacher from other places.
Miss Sullivan hit it off with Helen Keller. They got along well within a few days of knowing each other, and Helen Keller learned to read from Miss Sullivan.
One day, the teacher wrote the word "water" in Helen Keller's palm. Somehow, Helen Keller couldn't write it down. The teacher knew where Helen Keller's difficulties were. She took Helen Keller to the fountain and asked her to put her little hand under the fountain so that the cool spring water could spill on her hand. Then, Teacher Sullivan wrote the word "water" in Helen Keller's palm, and Helen Keller will remember it firmly from then on, and she 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 flowing through my palm." The word "drink" awakened my soul and gave me light, hope and happiness.
However, Miss Sullivan thinks that it is still inconvenient to communicate just knowing how to read and not being able to speak. However, Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind since she was a child, couldn't hear the voice of others and couldn't see the mouth shape of others. Therefore, although she was not dumb, she couldn't speak.
In order to overcome this difficulty, Miss Sullivan found an expert for Helen Keller, and taught her to use her hands to feel the change of mouth shape when others speak, and the difference between inhaling and exhaling through the nasal cavity to learn pronunciation. Of course, it was not easy, but Helen Keller did it.
Helen Keller, a blind writer, has not only broken through the functional barriers to learn to speak, but also devoted her life to giving speeches to disabled people everywhere, encouraging them to affirm themselves and determined to be a disabled person. Helen Keller's love not only gives people with disabilities full confidence, but also inspires people from all over the world to face up to the welfare of the disabled and set up 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 who is physically disabled and determined, warns people with sound health to cherish life and everything given by the creator. In addition, The Story of My Life included in this book is an autobiographical work by Helen Keller, which is regarded as "an unparalleled masterpiece in the history of world literature".
In p>1968, Helen died at the age of 89. She spread all her life-long service to the disabled all over the world. She has written many books, and her stories have been made into movies. Teacher Sullivan gave her the most precious love, and she spread it to all the unfortunate people, bringing them hope. After her death, because of her strong will and outstanding contribution, she touched the whole world, and people everywhere carried out activities to commemorate her.
Helen Keller was blind and deaf due to illness since childhood, but she made unremitting efforts to overcome great difficulties to finish college. 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. In 1964, he won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her deeds have been made into movies twice.
Helen Keller's life
Helen Keller seems destined to create miracles for mankind, or that God sent her to the world to show ordinary people the dignity and greatness of the disabled. When she was one and a half years old, she suddenly suffered from acute cerebral congestion, and her high fever for several days made her unconscious. When she woke up, her eyes burned blind, her ears burned deaf, and her dexterous little mouth could not speak. From then on, she fell into a dark and silent world and fell into the abyss of pain.
March 3, 1887, 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 read a complete and authentic French letter from Helen with surprise, 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 will take 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 unlit 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 was beyond anyone's imagination. When she learns to pronounce, 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 had to practice her pronunciation repeatedly, sometimes for hours to pronounce a sound. 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 she was able to say "father", "mother" and "sister" fluently. The whole family gave her a surprise hug, and even her favorite puppy seemed to understand her call and ran to lick her hand.
In the summer of p>1894, Helen attended the American Association for the Promotion of Language Teaching for the Deaf, and was arranged to go to Humason School for the Deaf in new york to study mathematics, science, French and German. Within a few months, she could talk freely in German. In less than a year, she finished reading william tell in German. 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 the poetry anthology "Rolls-Bean" to her in his quiet home by Merrimack River. When he reached 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." Doctor refers to Miss Anne. Helen's excitement, beautiful thoughts and sentiments in the world, meaningful and deep love, and down-to-earth pursuit are all deeply rooted in her heart like the seeds of spring. Helen said confidently from an early age, "One day, I want to go to college! I'm going to Harvard University! " This day has finally come. 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 the subjects passed, and she got excellent grades in English and German. Helen began her college life with eagerness.
In June p>194, Helen graduated from Radcliffe College with honors. Two years later, she was appointed chairman of the Massachusetts Committee for the Blind and began social work for the blind. She receives visiting blind people every day, and she has to reply to letters flying in like snowflakes. Later, she toured all over the United States to promote the implementation of education programs and treatment programs for the deaf and blind. In 1921, 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. The Story of My Life, Song of the Stone Wall, out of the dark, Optimism, etc., have all exerted worldwide influence. Helen's last work was Teacher, for which she had collected notes and letters for 2 years, but all these and three-quarters of the manuscripts were burned in a fire, along with the Braille library and exquisite craft gifts from various countries. A different person might be disheartened, but Helen learned from the bitter experience and strengthened her determination to finish it. She sat quietly in front of the typewriter and began another difficult trek. Ten years later, Helen finished the manuscript. She is very pleased that this book is a gift for teacher Anne, and teacher Anne is very proud of it.
On November 15th, 1956, a curtain was erected on a plaque at the entrance of Perkins School for the Blind, which was opened by Helen with trembling hands. It read: In memory of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy. 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 movement. On June 1, 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, "There were two great figures in the 19th century, one was Napoleon and the other was Helen Keller." My Light in the Dark is a book about the sublimation of human spirit. Born deaf and blind, Helen Keller lived in a lonely situation isolated from ordinary people in her early years.