all character sketch of novel Story of my life 100 words
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The Story of My Life Character List
Helen Keller
Helen Keller is the protagonist and author of this memoir, telling the story of her life up to age 22. Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Helen was stricken with a disease that left her both deaf and blind early on in life, and she struggled to express herself until her teacher, Anne Sullivan, came to work with her when she was seven years old. From then on, Helen's life became a story of progress and success, as she constantly surmounted obstacles and became the first deaf-blind person to obtain a Bachelor's degree.
Anne Sullivan
Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy, known as Anne Sullivan, came into Helen’s life on third of March 1887. She herself had been blind in her youth, and after her vision was partially restored, she decided to dedicate her life to teaching others like her. Through Miss Sullivan's patient teaching that was perfectly tailored to Helen's interests and needs, Helen achieved great success, the likes of which no one expected from her.
Kate Adams
The mother of Helen Keller and Mildred Keller. She was a very caring lady who tried her best to understand Helen and taught her a lot of things. Throughout Helen's life, she was a constant advocate for her daughter, determined to find opportunities for her despite her handicaps.
Arthur H. Keller
The father of Helen and Mildred, and a captain in Confederate Army prior to his work as a newspaper editor. His family is descended from Casper Keller, a native of Switzerland, who settled in Maryland. Helen loved her father, and remarked that he was a particularly good storyteller. She also commented on his fondness for hunting. Arthur died in the summer of 1896.
Mildred Keller
The younger sister of Helen Keller. For a long time, Helen regarded her little sister as an intruder on her mother's attention. Eventually, the two developed a close relationship, though Mildred was never truly able to understand Helen's finger language. Mildred also attended the Cambridge School with Helen for six months.
Martha Washington
The daughter of Helen's cook, Belle, and a good friend of Helen's in the early days of her illness, when few others could understand her. The two got up to great mischief and adventurous exploration of their surroundings.
Mr. Anagnos
Michael Anagnos was the Director of Perkins Institute for the Blind, as well as a good friend of Helen's in her early life. Her story, "The Frost King," was intended as a birthday present to him, but after it was uncovered that the story had been unwittingly plagiarized, his relationship with her was tainted.
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell
He was the inventor of the telephone and a teacher of the deaf. Helen dedicated her autobiography to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, and spent much time with him throughout her life. Dr. Bell was the one who took Helen to the World's Fair for the first time.
Mr. Gilman
Mr. Arthur Gilman was the Principal of the Cambridge School for Young Ladies. He was a generous person who learned to use manual alphabet to have a conversation with Helen. He was very serious about his students and cared deeply about Helen's education, but when he reduced her course load and extended her time at the school following her illness, Helen's mother withdrew her and put her in private tutoring.
Merton S. Keith
Keith was an instructor in Cambridge who carried oversaw Helen’s preparation for Radcliffe after she withdrew from the Cambridge School. He instructed Helen in Algebra, Greek, Latin, and Geometry.
Bishop Brooks
Brooks was a very joyful person in Helen's life who told her to think beyond the boundaries of caste and religion. He taught Helen that love is a universal religion.
Mr. William Endicott
A friend of Helen's who lived near Boston at Beverly Farms.
Miss Sarah Fuller
The teacher who began teaching Helen to speak by allowing her to feel the movements of her own lips and tongue. Helen took eleven lessons with Miss Fuller.
Mrs. Sophia C. Hopkins
A friend with whom Helen and Miss Sullivan stayed during their summer at Brewster. Mrs. Hopkins read many books to Helen, one of which was presumably "The Frost Fairies."
Mr. John P. Spaulding
A close friend of Helen's, who died around the same time as her father.
Mr. J.E. Chamberlin
A friend of Helen's, at whose home they stayed during their months in Wrentham, Massachusetts.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale
A close friend of Helen's, to whom she wrote letters often.
John Albert Macy
Editor of The Story of My Life, and a close friend of Miss Sullivan's and Helen's during Helen's time at Radcliffe. He was a Professor of English at Harvard.
Helen keller::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Helen Keller was born on 27th June 1880 in Tuscumbia in Alabama. Her father, Arthur H. Keller, was a descendent of Caspar Keller who was a native of Switzerland. He was a captain in the confederate army. Helen’s mother was Kate Adams who was Arthur’s second wife and was many years younger. At the age of nineteen months, Helen became very ill with brain fever. When the fever subsided, Helen was left blind and deaf forever. Helen was quite eager to learn. Despite her handicap she had learnt some crude signs of communication and also how to fold the clothes etc. later, she showed exceptional capabilities for learning and very soon could learn to read, write or even speak. She had voracious passion for learning, knowledge and exploration.
Like Wordsworth, she learnt to find solace in nature and its
peaceful serenity. Before Miss
Sullivan's arrival, this garden was the place where Helen went to find comfort
and hide her hot face in the cool leaves and grass. Helen felt extremely happy
in that garden of flowers, wandering happily from spot to spot. She could
recognize each vine and plant by touching them.
Helen was a prodigy child since her early childhood!
However, the challenges she faced were quite arduous. After being
rendered blind and disabled in hearing and speaking, Helen's frustration to
learn more and more about life mounted very high. Her hearing disability
combined with visual disability made the teaching and learning more
challenging. Helen was a very industrious girl; she always did her best to
learn. She had such a natural, innate passion for learning which always
motivated her. Manual alphabet, reading, arithmetic, etc., all were formidable
challenges for her initially, but Helen overcame them. The most arduous of all
of them was learning to speak. Learning to speak is almost an impossible task
for those who have hearing disability. So Helen had to work very hard.
She had to repeat each word and sentence many times for the right tone and
pronunciation. She practiced untiringly. At times she became discouraged and
weary too, but she never gave up. She faced all the difficulties courageously.
Her courage and perseverance are source of inspiration for all mankind!
Miss Sullivan
Miss Sullivan inspired Helen through the qualities of her
love, care, and deep knowledge. She was herself the victim of visual
disability. She had overcome it with sheer practice. She was perfect in
teaching children suffering from visual and hearing disabilities. She knew the
manual alphabet and other teaching techniques. She won Helen's confidence
convincingly.
Miss
Sullivan was an extraordinary teacher. The world is full of ordinary teachers
who just teach shallowly. Miss Sullivan touched the depths of Helen's soul and
brought light to her darkened world.
The day she arrived at Helen's house, Helen called that day the most important
day of her life. Helen compared the arrival of her teacher to the shining of
'light of love' in her darkened life.
Miss Sullivan took unprecedented pains to
teach Helen manual alphabet. Since Helen was suffering from hearing as well as
visual disabilities, Miss Sullivan really had to work very hard to teach Helen
the alphabet.
In
the 7 chapter, Helen praises Miss Sullivan in the following words: "Thus I
learned from life itself. At the beginning I was only a mass of possibilities.
It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them. When she came, everything
about me breathed of love and joy and was full of meaning." It was Miss
Sullivan's genius, her sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of
Helen's education so beautiful. Miss Sullivan made learning easy and fun-filled
for Helen.
Mrs.Kate
Adams Keller
Mrs. Kate Adams Keller was an extremely caring mother. Towards Helen, she was more caring and responsible. Before Miss Sullivan's arrival, she was her loving refuge. Whenever Helen had a tantrum of frustration on account of being unable to express herself, she would go into her mother's arms where she would forget the cause of her tempest. Her mother was very much concerned regarding Helen's education. She was always requesting her husband to arrange for her education. It was she who saw the hope of the possibility of Helen's education while reading the account of Laura Bridgman. She wanted Helen to be educated like her. She also felt very sad on knowing that Dr Howe, who had taught Laura Bridgman, had died. She was always in search of finding out ways to make life of Helen more comfortable.