Describe the early childhood of Helen Keller
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Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In 1882, she was stricken by an illness that left her blind and deaf. Beginning in 1887, Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her make tremendous progress with her ability to communicate, and Keller went on to college, graduating in 1904.
Early Life
Helen Keller was the first of two daughters born to Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. She also had two older stepbrothers. Keller's father had proudly served as an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The family was not particularly wealthy and earned income from their cotton plantation. Later, Arthur became the editor of a weekly local newspaper, the North Alabamian.
Keller was born with her senses of sight and hearing, and started speaking when she was just 6 months old. She started walking at the age of 1.
Loss of Sight and Hearing
In 1882, however, Keller contracted an illness—called "brain fever" by the family doctor—that produced a high body temperature. The true nature of the illness remains a mystery today, though some experts believe it might have been scarlet fever or meningitis.Keller had lost both her sight and hearing. She was just 19 months old.
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Early Life
Helen Keller was the first of two daughters born to Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. She also had two older stepbrothers. Keller's father had proudly served as an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The family was not particularly wealthy and earned income from their cotton plantation. Later, Arthur became the editor of a weekly local newspaper, the North Alabamian.
Keller was born with her senses of sight and hearing, and started speaking when she was just 6 months old. She started walking at the age of 1.
Loss of Sight and Hearing
In 1882, however, Keller contracted an illness—called "brain fever" by the family doctor—that produced a high body temperature. The true nature of the illness remains a mystery today, though some experts believe it might have been scarlet fever or meningitis.Keller had lost both her sight and hearing. She was just 19 months old.
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Helen Keller remembers a happy childhood.
An older Helen Keller describes her memories of early childhood as a “few impressions [that] stand out vividly from the first years of my life” (ch 1). She lived in a “tiny house consisting of a large square room and a small one, in which the servant slept.” She lived with her father, Captain Keller, and her mother, on the family homestead. She describes her childhood idyllically.
The Keller homestead, where the family lived, was a few steps from our little rose-bower. It was called "Ivy Green" because the house and the surrounding trees and fences were covered with beautiful English ivy. Its old-fashioned garden was the paradise of my childhood. (ch 1)
For Helen, the illness happened very early in her childhood. She was only 19 months old when she was taken with the illness that cost her sight and hearing. After that, she entered a prison of darkness that was only relieved by senses of touch and smell. She lived this way until Anne Sullivan came to teach her language. She was intelligent enough that it did not take long for her to catch on to words and eventually write her autobiography.
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