Helen Keller

The Story Of My Life, first book written by Helen Keller was published in the year 1903 in the form of an autobiography describing about her early life, education, life struggles and specially her experiences with her teacher Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Helen Keller wrote this book to honor the inventor of the telephone and a teacher of the deaf, Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander helps the Keller family to find a suitable teacher for Helen and also becomes a good friend of her. As a child, she seems to be an impatient, stubborn, aggressive and had cut off from a world she cannot understand. But later she is turned into a much more mature, determined, insatiably curious and optimistic adult who refuse to be halted by disabilities of any sort with the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan who is as stubborn and willful as Helen. With her persistently devoting and creative nature, she is able to break through Helen emotionally and intellectually. Anne, soon became the best companion that she ever had even though her younger sister Mildred Keller who Helen first regarded as an intruder but eventually they became playmates.
Helen explained in this book that she was able to transform herself from a dependent child almost wholly without language to an accomplished and successful …show more content…
For Helen Keller, knowledge serves as a mean of liberation and freedom; as it not only allowed her to relate to the outside world but also enabled her to prove herself and give vend to her expressions. It could not be fathom out that how Helen managed to accomplish all that she did with her limitations and this is what makes this book much more mesmerizing and her view of insights more