Helen Keller Research Paper

Helen Keller was born on June of 1880 from Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen Keller had a unique perspective about the world and the people around her. Even though Helen Keller lost her hearing and her sight by an illness as a new born child, she never gave up on learning and exploring new things. She figured out what things were by feeling the object. Helen Keller had to learn to communicate with her parents and others by acting out what she needed or wanted. She had a childhood friend, Martha Washington that understood most of what Helen was signing and Helen had no problem in making Martha do whatever she was wanting to do. Helen had two older half-brothers and one younger sister. Her father, Arthur Keller died in 1896. Helen met Alexander Bell in Washington, he impacted her life and also help her to find a teacher. Her teacher Miss Anne Sullivan taught Helen how to spell words in her hand and taught her how to read with raised letter flash cards also Miss Sullivan had a great impact in all aspects in her life. Helen went to Cambridge in 1896 to get prepared to go into Radcliffe college but as a little girl she always wanted to attend Harvard University. She always had miss Sullivan there to translate through hand spelling and also her principal and her German teacher …show more content…
she thought it was like a race and it was hard to remember all of what was spelled into her hand for her notes. There was not many books printed for the blind so it was harder and took longer for her to prepare for her course then everyone else in the classes. In Kellers life she loved books with all the knowledge and pleasure it brought her even as a child. She loved all types of books even books in different languages. Also she didn't think that reading the Bible was interesting and it was unappealing to her. When her cousin read her stories from the Bible she would fall asleep because she thought the stories were not entertaining