Anne sullivan was as remarkable as her student helen.comment.
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Miss Sullivan was indeed an exceptionally gifted teacher. Helen pays glowing homage to her on many occasions in the book, 'The Story of My Life'. The day she arrived at Helen's house, Helen calls 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.
Helen was leading a darkened life, literally as well as metaphorically. Owing to her blindness and deafness, her two windows of the most important senses were closed, shutting the light of knowledge and beauty outside her. Her inside was in utter darkness. Like a ship lost in fog, Helen's soul was crying, “Light! Give me light!" And in response to her cries, God sent Miss Sullivan into her life, whose light of love shone on Helen, and her darkness was gone forever. Miss Sullivan taught Helen with so much of love and dedication, that Helen's shut windows of the senses of vision and hearing were compensated for. Miss Sullivan taught her the secret of language. Then there was no turning back. Helen devoured books with ever increasing passion and enthusiasm. The words became light in her once darkened world.Not only Miss Sullivan gave Helen the light of knowledge, she was her constant companion through the the thick and thin of life. Be it the Frost King Episode or the preparation for preliminary exams for Radcliffe college, she was always there to motivate, support and share Helen's burdens.