describe helen's visit to brewster
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The orphaned Anne Sullivan first met Brewster resident Sophie Hopkins at the Perkins School Nearly blind herself, Sullivan had been sent to the school at state expense.
Mrs. Hopkins brought young Anne with her when she returned to Cape Cod during the summer rcess. An abiding friendship formed, and Sullivan revisited Brewster each year.
In 1887, Mrs. Keller wrote to the Perkins School afer reading about another deaf-blind student there in an essay written by Charles Dickens.
The school sent her Anne Sullivan as a teacher for her child.
In the spring of 1888, Mrs. Keller and Anne Sullivan brought Hellen to the Perkins School, and that summer Sullivan brought Helen with her to Cape Cod.
In her earliest autobiography, My Story, written when Keller was 12, she describes this Cape visit. Sullivan and Keller returned to Brewster in 1892 and 1896.
“I now wish to speak of my visit to the seaside; for it was during my sojourn at the north that I received my first impression of the great ocean. It was about the middle of July, after my mother had returned to our home in the Sunny South, that Teacher and I went to Brewster, a pleasant little town of Cape Cod, where we spent a very happy summer.
“The morning after our arrival, I awoke bright and early. A beautiful summer day had dawned, the day on which I was to make the acquaintance of a somber and mysterious friend. I got up, and dressed quickly, and ran down stairs. I met Teacher in the hall, and begged to be taken to the sea at once.
” ‘Not yet,’ she responded, laughing. ‘We must have breakfast first.’
“As soon as breakfast was over, we hurried off to the shore. Our pathway led thorugh low sandy hills, and, as we hastened on, I often caught my feet in the long, course grass, and tumbled, laughing, in the warm, shining sand. the beautiful warm air was peculiarly fragrant, and I noticed it got cooler and fresher as we went on.
“Suddenly, we stopped, annd I knew, without being told, the sea was at my feet. I knew,too, it was immense! Awful! And for amoment some of the sunshine seemed to have gone out of the day. But I do not think I was afraid; for later, when I had put on my bathing suit, and the little waves ran up the beach and kissed my feet, I shouted for joy, and plunged fearlessly into the surf. But, unfortunately, I struck my foot on a rock, and fell forward into the cold water.
“Then, a strange, fearful sense of danger terrified me. The salt water filled my eyes and took away my breath, and a great wave threw me up on the beach as easily as if I had been a little pebble. For several days after that, I was very timid, and could hardly be persuaded to go in the water at all; but, by degrees, my courage returned, and almost before the summer was over, I thought it the greatest fun to be tossed about by the saa-waves.
“Oh, the happy, happy hours I spent, hunting the wonderful shells. How pretty they were with their lovely, fresh hues and exquisite shapes! And how pleasant it was to sit on the sandy bank and braid the sea grass, while Teacher told me story of the sea, and described, in simple wordds that I could understand, the majestic ocean, and the ships that drifted in the distance like white-winged birds.”
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Mrs. Hopkins brought young Anne with her when she returned to Cape Cod during the summer rcess. An abiding friendship formed, and Sullivan revisited Brewster each year.
In 1887, Mrs. Keller wrote to the Perkins School afer reading about another deaf-blind student there in an essay written by Charles Dickens.
The school sent her Anne Sullivan as a teacher for her child.
In the spring of 1888, Mrs. Keller and Anne Sullivan brought Hellen to the Perkins School, and that summer Sullivan brought Helen with her to Cape Cod.
In her earliest autobiography, My Story, written when Keller was 12, she describes this Cape visit. Sullivan and Keller returned to Brewster in 1892 and 1896.
“I now wish to speak of my visit to the seaside; for it was during my sojourn at the north that I received my first impression of the great ocean. It was about the middle of July, after my mother had returned to our home in the Sunny South, that Teacher and I went to Brewster, a pleasant little town of Cape Cod, where we spent a very happy summer.
“The morning after our arrival, I awoke bright and early. A beautiful summer day had dawned, the day on which I was to make the acquaintance of a somber and mysterious friend. I got up, and dressed quickly, and ran down stairs. I met Teacher in the hall, and begged to be taken to the sea at once.
” ‘Not yet,’ she responded, laughing. ‘We must have breakfast first.’
“As soon as breakfast was over, we hurried off to the shore. Our pathway led thorugh low sandy hills, and, as we hastened on, I often caught my feet in the long, course grass, and tumbled, laughing, in the warm, shining sand. the beautiful warm air was peculiarly fragrant, and I noticed it got cooler and fresher as we went on.
“Suddenly, we stopped, annd I knew, without being told, the sea was at my feet. I knew,too, it was immense! Awful! And for amoment some of the sunshine seemed to have gone out of the day. But I do not think I was afraid; for later, when I had put on my bathing suit, and the little waves ran up the beach and kissed my feet, I shouted for joy, and plunged fearlessly into the surf. But, unfortunately, I struck my foot on a rock, and fell forward into the cold water.
“Then, a strange, fearful sense of danger terrified me. The salt water filled my eyes and took away my breath, and a great wave threw me up on the beach as easily as if I had been a little pebble. For several days after that, I was very timid, and could hardly be persuaded to go in the water at all; but, by degrees, my courage returned, and almost before the summer was over, I thought it the greatest fun to be tossed about by the saa-waves.
“Oh, the happy, happy hours I spent, hunting the wonderful shells. How pretty they were with their lovely, fresh hues and exquisite shapes! And how pleasant it was to sit on the sandy bank and braid the sea grass, while Teacher told me story of the sea, and described, in simple wordds that I could understand, the majestic ocean, and the ships that drifted in the distance like white-winged birds.”
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