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Could you pls send the character sketch of all characters of helen Keller novel.

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Answered by sonirajput1
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Character Sketch of 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.
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Answered by Haashini
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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

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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 KellerThe 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 WashingtonThe 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. AnagnosMichael 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 BellHe 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. GilmanMr. 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.





Haashini: sorry i forgot leave lines
AVINASHKumar2003: No problem
Haashini: thanks
AVINASHKumar2003: But you given all characters sketch na
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