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autobiography off hellen keller

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Portrait of Helen Keller as a young girl,with a white dog on her lap (August 1887)Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. Her parents were Kate Adams Keller and Colonel Arthur Keller.On her father's side she was descended from Colonel Alexander Spottswood, a governor of Virginia, and on her mother's side, she was related to a number of prominent New England families. Helen'sfather, Arthur Keller, was a captain in the Confederate army. The family lost most of its wealth during the Civil War and lived modestly.After the war, Captain Keller edited a local newspaper, theNorth Alabamian,and in 1885, under the Cleveland administration, he was appointed Marshal of North Alabama.At the age of 19 months, Helen became deaf and blind as a result of an unknown illness, perhaps rubella or scarlet fever. As Helen grew from infancy into childhood, shebecame wild and unruly.When Helen Keller Met Anne SullivanAs she so often remarked as an adult, her life changed on March 3, 1887. On that day, Anne Mansfield Sullivan came to Tuscumbia to be her teacher.was a 20-year-old graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind. Compared with Helen, Anne couldn't have had a more different childhood and upbringing. The daughter of poor Irish immigrants, she entered Perkins at 14 years of age after four horrific years as a ward of the state at the Tewksbury Almshouse in Massachusetts.She was just 14 years older than her pupil Helen, and she too suffered from serious vision problems. Anne underwent many botched operations at a young age before her sight was partially restored.Anne's success with Helen remains an extraordinary and remarkable story and is best known to people because of the filmThe Miracle Worker.The film correctly depicted Helen as an unruly, spoiled—but very bright—child who tyrannized the household with her temper tantrums.Anne believed that the key to reaching Helen was to teach her obedience and love. She saw the need to discipline, but not crush, the spirit of her young charge. As a result, within a week of her arrival, she had gained permission to remove Helen from the main house and live alone with her in the nearby cottage. They remained there fortwo weeks.Anne began her task of teaching Helen by manually signing into the child's hand. Annehad brought a doll that the children at Perkins had made for her to take to Helen. By spelling "d-o-l-l" into the child's hand, shehoped to teach her to connect objects with letters.