Helen Keller Research Paper

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Imagine not being able to hear that voice in your head when you think. Not only that but not being able to see or hear! How would you learn? How would you feel? Lonely? Frustrated? Scared? Well if you can imagine that then you know exactly how Helen Keller felt almost all of her childhood. Helen Keller had a rough childhood . She was born June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When Helen was only 19 months she got an illness called the scarlet fever which caused her to become blind and deaf. Helen soon became frustrated that she couldn't understand others and started throwing tantrums. Helen Keller stopped behaving for her mom and dad so Kate and Arthur Keller gave up on telling her what to do. Soon her parents got fed up and got a teacher for …show more content…
Sullivan slowly got close to Keller, close enough that Helen would sit on Anne's lap. Once Helen was ready Anne gave her a doll that spelled D-o-l-l. Anne Sullivan also taught her a game, Anne would spell a word in Helen's hand and she would repeat it. Helen Keller didn't understand that she was spelling words or that words even existed. Then one day a Miracle happened! Anne took Helen outside to the water pump, poured water into her hand and spelled water in her other hand. It all clicked she now knew that w-a-t-e-r meant this cool liquid flowing over her hands. Now eager to learn, little Keller ran around with her hands demanding to know their names! Later in life, Keller wanted to go to school. She went to Radcliffe for four years and Anne went with her tapping lectures into her hands. In her junior year at Radcliffe she wrote her most well-known book called "The Story of My Life", She graduated from Radcliffe in 1904. In 1913 Helen wrote and published "The World I Live In". After, she got engaged to a man named Peter Fagan and Helen kept their love a secret for the sake of Sullivan being