Dec 19, 2009

The Story of My Life | Social Sensitivity

Because Keller focuses on her abilities rather than on her deprivations, The Story of My Life serves as a model for what the physically disabled can accomplish. She stresses her normalcy—she enjoys the same activities that seeing and hearing people do. Her story shows readers that the physically handicapped are not "different," a message that was particularly relevant in her era, when people often assumed that the physically disabled were also mentally disabled. In part because of Keller's remarkable career, that attitude has decreased considerably, and modern society is more...