The Story of My Life (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Helen Keller
- First Published: 1903
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Children’s literature
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Teaching or teachers, Language or languages, Self-discovery, Nineteenth century, Blindness or blind persons, Education or educators, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Deafness or hearing-impaired persons, Sign language
- Locales: New York, NY, Boston, MA, Alabama, Cambridge, MA
The Work
The Story of My Life was written while Helen Keller, then in her early twenties, was a student at Radcliffe College. It is a moving story of the education of a child with the extreme handicap of being deaf and blind. The book begins with a rather vague description of young Helen’s earliest memories, before she became deaf and blind at the age of nineteen months, but most of it narrates her teaching by Anne Sullivan of the Perkins Institute for the Blind.
The Story of My Life is far from the cry for help that it might easily have been. The tone is...
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