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The Story of My Life
Helen and Miss Sullivan traveled to Massachusetts to visit the Perkins Institute for the Blind. While in the state, they took a day trip to Plymouth so that Helen could experience the ocean. Helen...
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The Story of My Life
In The Story of My Life, Helen Keller describes herself as an avid learner. As soon as she got the language connection at the pump, she began learning words as quickly as possible. She sought out...
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The Story of My Life
Alexander Graham Bell helped Helen by directing her father to the school that might best be able to provide Helen with a teacher, and indeed they did. Helen dedicated the story of her life to Bell...
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The Story of My Life
Ms. Sullivan did not arrive to teach Helen using traditional methods. Helen could not see or hear, so she could not use those senses to learn. Ms. Sullivan could not teach Helen to read letters...
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The Story of My Life
The impression that the reader forms of young Helen is that she is a very bright child who is at first trapped by her handicaps, but she bravely overcomes them. Since she was only a small child...
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The Story of My Life
Helen had long had a desire to speak. She communicated by fingerspelling, but longed to use her voice as others did. She knew other people communicated by speaking. As a young girl, Helen "used...
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The Story of My Life
Helen did very little in her life for the first seven years. She lived in a world of silence and darkness. She rarely traveled and she spent most of her time at home. She had interaction with very...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller was a year old when she lost her eyesight and hearing due to an illness. Before this, she was a baby who enjoyed nature. Her mother noticed that as a baby Helen was "attracted by the...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller faced many problems, which she recounts in her autobiography, The Story of My Life. All these problems center around being blind and deaf, which occurred when Keller was a very young...
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Helen's parents thought a trip to Baltimore to see a prominent oculist would be the answer to their daughter's problems. After examining Helen's eyes, Dr. Chisholm delivered disappointing news: he...
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The Story of My Life
Helen reveals these details in Chapter 3 of The Story of My Life. Her mother had read Charles Dickens’ book American Notes. She had absorbed the author’s description of a visit to the Perkins...
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The Story of My Life
Though Helen could no longer hear after she became deaf, she could feel the vibrations of sound. She loved to placed her hands on an object or living thing as it was making a sound. Helen had...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller made many claims throughout her autobiography, The Story of My Life. One claim she made was that her plagiarism when she wrote the short story "The Frost King" had been completely...
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The Story of My Life
Helen describes learning about abstract terms in Chapter 6. The two specific concepts she writes about here are “love” and “think.” It took her a while to understand what “love” is....
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Helen Keller
Helen Keller was born in the small town of Tuscumbia, Alabama. It was located in the northern part of the state. She was born on June 27th in the year 1880. In her autobiography, The Story of My...
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The Story of My Life
An illness left young Helen Keller deaf and blind. Her parents were determined to find help for their daughter. After doing some research, her "father heard of an eminent oculist in Baltimore,...
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The Story of My Life
In Chapter 1, Keller recounts the story of her birth in 1880 in Alabama and gives an account of her family's genealogy. She also recalls her memories of her childhood before her illness, and at the...
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The Story of My Life
Before Anne Sullivan arrived, Helen Keller was trapped in a world of darkness. Unable to see and hear since she was a baby, little Helen struggled to make others understand her. A regular school...
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The Story of My Life
To find some examples, take a look at Chapter Seven. Here Helen talks about the relationship between nature and her lessons, noting that Miss Sullivan preferred to teach her out of doors rather...
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The Story of My Life
This story comes in Chapter 6. Anne Sullivan was teaching Helen words for all sorts of things, using finger language. Abstract concepts were trickier. One day Anne spelled out, “I love Helen.”...
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The Story of My Life
Since Helen Keller was blind and deaf, a regular formal education was a challenge. She had been taught from a young age by Anne Sullivan, one on one and usually in the garden. This education...
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The Tell-Tale Heart
I believe that the question is asking if it is possible that there could be an alternative title to Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life. Yes, there could be alternative titles. I'm...
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The Story of My Life
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...
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The Story of My Life
In this chapter, Helen Keller discusses how she began to read. She first started reading stories in Braille again and again, as she became interested in the words and improving her vocabulary. At...
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The Story of My Life
Ms. Sullivan repeated what others said to Helen and made suggestions when she had nothing to say. When Helen Keller was a toddler, a serious illness took her sight and hearing and almost took her...
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The Story of My Life
Little Helen Keller was very upset because she was accused of plagiarism, but she did not intentionally copy anything. It was all about a story she wrote called “The Frost King” that turned...
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The Story of My Life
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...
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The Story of My Life
Most of Chapter 11 in The Story of My Life was about Helen's time spent with her family and Miss Sullivan in their mountain cottage. At the beginning of the chapter, Helen reflected on her time...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller was excited to visit the ocean for the first time, but it frightened her when she first went in it. When she was eight years old in the summer of 1888, Helen Keller visited the ocean...
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The Story of My Life
Here are some vocabulary words that may be unfamiliar to some readers of The Story of My Life, though there may be other words as well: poignancy: the quality of calling forth sadness. untainted:...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller's life changed when Miss Sullivan entered her life. Miss Sullivan became her mentor, teacher, friend, and companion. Miss Sullivan had an incredible impact on Helen's life. In her...
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The Story of My Life
Chapter 1: Helen introduces her parents and writes of the early years of her life. She explains the circumstances of the illness that left her deaf and blind. A few months before her second...
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The Story of My Life
We know that Helen considered the house where she grew up beautiful because of the gardens surrounding it. Helen spent her early childhood in a little house on the Keller homestead. In general,...
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The Story of My Life
I will address one of your questions and give you some insight on where to find answers to your other four. In the future, it is best to ask multiple questions separately when using Homework Help...
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The Story of My Life
Helen was hesitant when she began writing her autobiography. Many years before, she had written a story and had been accused of intentional plagiarism. Helen wrote a creative story called "The...
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The Story of My Life
Before Miss Sullivan came to teach Helen how to communicate, the girl was often frustrated. Her frustration would frequently lead to angry outbursts. When Helen had these outbursts, she often...
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The Story of My Life
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...
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The Story of My Life
Helen Keller came from a distinguished American pedigree. On her father's side, her ancestors included a governor of the Virginia colony, Colonel Alexander Spottswood, while her mother was...
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The Story of My Life
One day, Helen and Miss Sullivan went walking in the woods. They found a nice shade tree, and Miss Sullivan suggested that they eat their midday meal under it. Helen decided to stay in the tree...
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The Story of My Life
The theme of The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is the power of perseverance to overcome great obstacles. Keller is struck with an illness when she is a very young child that makes her blind and...
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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
Even though young Helen Keller was blind and deaf, she still managed to cause a lot of trouble. In her book, Keller describes how as a little girl she was often accompanied by the cook's daughter....
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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
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...
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The Story of My Life
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...
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The Story of My Life
When Helen was very young, she lived with her parents in a small house on the Keller property. This little house was called "Ivy Green." The name came from the ivy which grew on the house and on...
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The Story of My Life
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...
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The Story of My Life
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...
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The Story of My Life
Helen says that the happy days did not last because she became very ill and almost died, and was left blind and deaf. The happy days that Keller speaks of are the early days of her childhood. She...
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The Story of My Life
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...