Question

explain the difficulties faced by Helen at Cambridge school, with reference to THE STORY OF MY LIFE.

Answer 1

Helen had to face many difficulties at the cambridge School. most of her teachers did not know the fingers alphabet to give her instruction. It was difficult to emboss the books need by her. Her speech was imperfect.
There were serious drawbacks to her progress in Cambridge school. Miss Sullivan could not spell out in her hand all that the books required, and it was very difficult to have textbooks embossed in time to be of use to her, although her friends in London and Philadelphia were willing to hasten the work. The examinations caused stress to Helen as the braille worked well enough in the languages, but when it came to geometry and algebra, difficulties arose. She was sorely perplexed, and felt discouraged wasting much precious time, especially in algebra. She was familiar with all literary braille in common use in English but the various signs and symbols in geometry and algebra in the three systems are very different, and she had used only the English braille in her algebra. Two days before the examinations, Mr. Vining sent her a braille copy of one of the old Harvard papers in algebra. To her dismay, she found that it was in the American notation. She immediately wrote to Mr. Vining, asking him to explain the signs. She received another paper and a table of signs by return mail, and then she set to work to learn the notation. But on the night before the algebra examination, she was struggling over some very complicated examples, combinations of bracket, brace and radical.

Answer 2

Ellen Page various problems in Cambridge School which are as follows..

1. she faced difficulty in studying the of book.

2. she always requires his teacher miss Sullivan for guiding her.