Dec 22, 2009

The Story of My Life | Overview

Keller's ability to communicate despite her handicaps has always fascinated people. To read her autobiography is to experience that communication as closely as possible. Readers gain a sense of what it would be like to be both deaf and blind, and of how a normal human being faced extraordinary difficulties with courage and grace. It is important to remember that Keller wrote this book while still in college, when she was about twenty-two years old. Covering only her childhood and young womanhood, this "story of her life" is an incomplete one, for she had over sixty years yet to live.