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The Story of My Life
From an early age Helen developed a profound sympathy for the underdog that would eventually manifest itself in a commitment to socialism. Evidence of Helen's sympathy for the poor can be found in...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller suffered an illness as a young child that caused her to become blind and deaf. Growing up without education, she was frustrated and often acted out because of her frustration. However,...
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The Story of My Life
The primary struggle Helen Keller faces is her multiple disabilities. At a very young age illness left her blind and deaf. This threw her into a limited realm where it became difficult for her to...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller feels great compassion towards the poor. She loves the sunshine and fresh air of her country home, but has also gone to visit the tenements of poor people crowded in the cities of her...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller was very fortunate that her family, especially her parents, loved her very deeply and wanted to help her to function to her fullest capacity despite her multiple disabilities of...
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The Story of My Life
After an illness as a toddler left Helen Keller both blind and deaf, hopes for her future initially seemed futile. When you put them together, the inability to see or hear mean that communication...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller is the main character in The Story of My Life which is a personal account of Helen's young life after she has a debilitating illness as a baby and is rendered blind and deaf. Annie...
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life is the autobiography of Helen Keller, written in 1903 while she was a student at Radcliffe College. She describes her childhood memories prior to losing her hearing and vision,...
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The Story of My Life
In The Story of My Life, Helen Keller holds Anne Sullivan in the highest esteem and is forever indebted to her for her enormous efforts, working far beyond expectations and ensuring Helen's ongoing...
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life reveals Annie Sullivan as the inspiration behind Helen Keller's extraordinary life. She is only partially-sighted herself, after undergoing surgery to correct her vision at a...
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The Story of My Life
In The Story of My Life, there are many influential people that affect Helen Keller. She values and recognizes their contribution to her development. One such person is Bishop Brooks whom Helen...
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The Story of My Life
Merton S. Keith was Helen's mathematics teacher. He also helped Helen with Greek and Latin. He lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For months, Mr. Keith tutored Helen twice a week. Eventually,...
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The Story of My Life
College did not live up to Helen Keller’s expectations because she previously loved learning for the sake of learning and she felt that college did not allow for that. Helen Keller was very...
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The Story of My Life
Mildred Keller is Helen's younger sister as explained in The Story of My Life. There is not a lot of information on Mildred in the autobiography but the reader does learn that, after an event when...
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The Story of My Life
Mr. Gilman was the principal of the Cambridge School, which Helen Keller attended to prepare for college. It was also called the Gilman School. Though Mr. Gilman was the principal of the school, he...
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The Story of My Life
Michael Anagnos worked at the Perkins Institution for the Blind as the director. He was born in Greece, but later immigrated to the United States. He spoke both Greek and English. He was tall in...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller's parents sought help from Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who was famous for inventing the telephone. He had family members who were deaf, so he had sympathy for Helen's plight. In her...
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is an interesting and important book as it gives a first hand account of the experience of being deaf and blind in a world which, especially in the period she...
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The Story of My Life
Helen's mind is bogged down with all her studies. She'd always been so excited at the prospect of going to Radcliffe College. But her romanticized ideals of what higher education would be like soon...
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The Story of My Life
Captain Keller, Helen's father, sought help from Mr. Anagnos of the Perkins Institution. Helen's father desired to find a teacher who could help his deaf and blind little girl. Mr. Anagnos...
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is not a novel as it is an autobiographical account of her life up until age 22. It may seem like a novel because of the intense drama and, for many people, the...
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life could be considered nonfiction, autobiography, or children's literature.
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The Story of My Life
In her memoir, Helen Keller, who became blind and deaf at the age of 19 months, shows how education changed her life and set her free. As a growing young girl, Keller became increasingly angry...
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The Story of My Life
The story is an autobiography in which Helen Keller tells people about the experiences she has had being blind and deaf and the difficulties she has faced. This story is nonfiction, meaning it...
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The Story of My Life
Before Helen could learn to read, Anne Sullivan first had to teach her the concept of language and letters. She did this by spelling into the child's hand the letters of words, and then putting...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller wrote The Story of My Life just as her adult life was beginning. She was a keen student at Radcliffe College at the time, an achievement in itself and something that she could never...
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The Story of My Life
Despite being both deaf and blind, Helen Keller was taught by Anne Sullivan to read braille at a young age. Reading became a practical benefit and a lifelong passion for Keller, who would go on to...
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life is an autobiographical account of Helen Keller's first twenty two years. Helen wrote it for two reasons. She knows how privileged she is to have been introduced to so many...
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The Story of My Life
Keller was long fascinated with nature, and she found refuge in the natural world before and after the illness that made her blind and deaf as a young child. She writes that after she had a tantrum...
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The Story of My Life
As revealed in The Story of My Life, Helen Keller's autobiographical account of her first twenty two years, Annie Sullivan is Helen's teacher but she becomes so much more to Helen to the point that...
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The Story of My Life
As we learn from the first chapter of Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, Helen came from a very noteworthy Southern family of Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her father was Arthur Henley...
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The Story of My Life
There are very few things that Helen Keller experienced which scared her according to her autobiography, The Story of My Life. She had the extraordinary ability to learn from everything - from...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller suffered a debilitating illness as a baby and as a result she spent the rest of her life deaf and blind. The Story of My Life traces her efforts to cope and to make the most of her...
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The Story of My Life
Helen's Aunt Ev makes her a towel doll before she embarks upon her trip, a journey that will culminate in a famous, life-changing meeting with Alexander Graham Bell. The doll is hastily-made and...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller reveals many important incidents in her development during the first twenty two years of her life, as told in her autobiography, The Story of My Life. Helen is far from the perfect...
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The Story of My Life
Chapter seventeen of The Story of My Life covers the summer of 1894, when Helen was a young teenager. It was during that summer that Helen attended a very important meeting of the American...
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The Story of My Life
In attempting to inspire others to reach their full potential, Helen Keller gives a personal account of her early life in The Story of My Life. She was left blind and deaf after an illness as a...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller wrote The Story of My Life when she was at college and it covers the first twenty two years of her life. Much is said about her struggles and triumphs throughout and an overall picture...
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The Story of My Life
Having been left blind and deaf after an illness at the age of nineteen months, Helen Keller relies on her sense of touch to explore and discover the world around her. In The Story of My Life she...
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller traces the struggles and triumphs that Helen faces and overcomes after being left blind and deaf from an illness at the age of nineteen months. Chapter 1:...
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is an autobiography, which was published when the author was in her early twenties. In it, Helen told her life story from birth until she was in college....
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The Story of My Life
In her autobiography, The Story of My Life, Helen expressed her desire to "enrich this sketch with the names of all those who have ministered to [her] happiness." Helen loved meeting people and...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller lived a life of darkness for many years until Miss Sullivan, her teacher, arrived. Helen's methods of communication up until then were crude and limited because of her blindness and...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller enjoyed playing in the garden as a young child because she could enjoy it with the senses other than hearing and seeing. From a very young age, Helen Keller loved nature. She...
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The Story of My Life
Some important incidents in Chapter One of “The Story of my Life” are: Before writing her autobiography, Helen is beset by a sort of fear at delving into her childhood. She discovers that most of...
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The Story of My Life
The summer of 1887 was when Helen first learned to communicate using the manual alphabet. Helen became desperate to learn all about her surroundings. She was thrilled to be able to communicate,...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller wrote The Story of My Life because she knew how privileged she was to have had so many opportunities and wanted to share her story as a means to inspire others so that they, too, can...
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The Story of My Life
It may seem odd to answer a question about how Helen Keller’s family became acquainted with the Perkins Institute by introducing Alexander Graham Bell, a man we all know best as the inventor of the...
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The Story of My Life
Helen explains how she learned to associate words with objects. This occurred after Miss Sullivan arrived at her home. From her very first day there, Miss Sullivan began finger writing letters into...
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The Story of My Life
Helen learns about perseverance from a storm. One example of nature acting as a teacher is when Helen was about seven years old and she was in a tree during a storm. She learned to persevere even...
