The Story of My Life

An illness when she was very young left Helen Keller unable to see or hear. As a very young child, she adapted to this situation, but as she got older and her brain continued to develop, her...

Helen Keller wrote The Story of My Life when she was only 22, so it is the story of her childhood, adolescence, and very young adult years. The most famous part of the memoir focuses on her early...

The major theme in Helen Keller's The Story of My Life is that drive and resilience in the face of adversity can lead to success beyond anyone's expectations. Another theme in the book is how...

It is true that The Story of my Life is both engaging and entertaining, but it also deeply moving and educational in helping readers to identify with those with sensory disabilities; therefore it...

Defining characteristics help people identify traits that are particular, for example, to children, to animals, and so on. Specific characteristics then help to identify a specific person or thing...

Helen Keller was also brought before a court of investigation, which consisted of teachers and officers of the Perkins Institution. The results and details of the investigation, although not made...

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...

Helen Keller faced many challenges, but she did not back down from any of them. Even though she lost her sight and hearing as a toddler, she did not let it stop her from facing the world on her own...

Helen Keller's Story of My Life was published in 1903, and words that were commonplace at that time have become more obscure as the English language has inevitably morphed and shifted. No doubt in...

I think Keller's purpose was to show the fundamental humanity of people with disabilities, and part of that is explaining her internal life as a child who could not see or hear. There is a kind of...

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...

Helen Keller faced many challenges in her life. She was deaf and blind, and for several years she could not communicate effectively. After she learned to communicate using the manual alphabet,...

One day, not too long after Helen learns to communicate, she brings Miss Sullivan some violets. When Miss Sullivan tries to kiss her in response, Helen resists the embrace, at that time only liking...

For Helen Keller, the arrival of Anne Sullivan was the most transformative moment in her young life, leading to her ability to communicate and to experience a full, rich future. In her memoir,...

Martha Washington was the daughter of Helen Keller’s family cook and was her friend and playmate when she was younger. When Helen was little, Martha Washington was her playmate but hardly her...

Without Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller would have been walled into a dark, hopeless world. Miss Sullivan was Helen's lifeline. It was the stalwart and persistent Miss Sullivan who managed to...

The plot is one of the main elements of a story and a plot diagram is a means by which writers and readers can create (writers) or follow (readers) the thread of a story by concentrating on the...

Many of Helen Keller's early lessons from her teacher, Anne Sullivan, took place out of doors because Helen enjoyed the outdoors immensely and because she relied on the sense of touch to learn new...

Helen Keller relies on allusion to explain to the reader the extraordinary importance of Miss Sullivan's entry into her life. She compares Miss Sullivan's arrival to the Israelites crossing the Red...

Helen's condition was, and is, exceptionally rare, so her parents could have been forgiven for not knowing how to cope. Yet they showed remarkable intelligence, courage, and fortitude in dealing...

Mildred was Helen Keller's younger sister, born when Helen was five. As most older siblings do, Helen regarded the newcomer as an "intruder." Mildred was, to Helen's mind, competition for her...

Helen is describing her life before and after her teacher Anne Sullivan came as two different lives. Helen Keller was born with sight and hearing, but lost them at a very young age. This made her...

Peter Fagan is actually not mentioned in Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, as the autobiography was actually published in 1903, whereas Helen did not meet Peter until 1916, when...

According to her autobiography, The Story of My Life, Helen Keller was born with the ability to hear and to see. But when she was 19 months old, she fell suddenly ill with a condition that "closed"...

Helen Keller likens herself to an Israelite enslaved in Egypt before Anne Sullivan's appearance, writing of her teacher's arrival: Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power...

Helen Keller wrote her autobiography The Story of My Life when she was at college and has provided inspiration to many people as they face seemingly overwhelming challenges in their own lives. In...

Helen Keller wants to highlight the importance of the day Anne Sullivan entered her life. Therefore, she uses a certain amount of fanfare and hyperbole to describe it. She goes back and forth...

Chapter 1 describes Helen’s family and her life before she was blind and deaf, as well as the introduction of her teacher Anne Sullivan. Helen was only a baby when she lost her sight and hearing....

In order to be prepared to enter Radcliffe, Helen Keller studied at the Cambridge School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, starting in October of 1896. The other students (all girls) had hearing and...

Helen Keller, supported by her autobiography, "The Story of My Life" and other works, is a source of inspiration to many people, especially for those whom their daily struggles begin to outweigh...

Soon after learning how to speak, Helen Keller wrote what she considered to be a beautiful story called "The Frost King" and sent it to Mr. Anagnos at the Perkins Institute as a gift for his...

Helen loves nature, but she describes a time when she was in a tree during a storm and realized nature could be frightening. Helen adores nature. Anne Sullivan brings her into the fields to smell...

The Story of My Life reveals Anne 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...

Helen Keller loved Alexander Graham Bell from the moment she met him. He recommended the Perkins Institute, who found Anne Sullivan to teach Helen Keller. Helen Keller’s biography The Story of My...

Helen Keller treasured her family and friends as they supported her, taught and mentored her and provided her link to the outside world, a world that otherwise was "silent, aimless, dayless." (Ch...

In The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, nature is fascinating, comforting and terrifying for Helen. When she is very young, Helen finds that the garden brings her relief from her frustrations; it...

In her memoir, Helen Keller depicts herself as an energetic and mischief-making young girl. One day she finds a key. She uses it to lock her mother in a pantry. She describes her "glee" as she sits...

Helen was a brave child, but being blind and deaf meant that she would sometimes become fearful of things she could not see or hear. Since she could only sense, fear of the unknown led her to...

Rhetorical devices are persuasive devices, so the first question we want to ask ourselves is, "what does Keller want to persuade us to think?" I would argue that she is trying to persuade her...

Helen Keller learned how to speak when she was nine years old. She was very excited about this, because being deaf had made it very difficult for her to communicate in the same way regular people...

Helen was nervous about writing a biography because she didn’t want to look back on the events of his childhood too closely. We often have fond memories of our childhood that may or may not be...

Miss Sullivan came to the Keller home to be six-year-old Helen Keller's teacher. Helen had suffered from a severe illness shortly before her second birthday. The illness left her deaf and blind....

The first major incident is Keller's illness when she is over a year old. This illness results in her losing her sight and hearing. For many years afterward, she struggles to communicate and in...

Helen lost her vision and hearing at the age of nineteen months - an age at which the ability to communicate is rapidly expanding in the normal development of the human infant. This process was...

Although Mildred, Helen Keller's younger sister, could not understand Helen's finger language, they were close when they were little. Even at a young age, Helen wanted to communicate with Mildred...

To understand this book, you have to consider it in context. Helen Keller is not telling the "story of her life"--how could she? She was only 22 when she wrote it. She is telling the "story of my...

Helen Keller was drawn to nature. Like her father, Helen appreciated being out in nature. The garden near her house was a place of solace for her. When Helen was young, she would go to the garden...

Helen Keller wrote her autobiography, The Story of My Life, when she was in her twenties. In it, she wrote about her family. Her father was Captain Arthur Keller. He had fought for the...

The setting of Helen Keller's The Story of My Life radically shifts over the course of the book. It begins in Keller's birthplace in the town of Tuscumbia, Alabama, where she is mysteriously taken...

A few synonyms for eventful in this context would be: significant, momentous, important, historic, consequential, and fateful. All these words imply that the day which Helen refers to stood out...