give a full account of all the efforts made by Miss Sullivan in making the narrator utter words
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Sullivan arrived at Keller's house on March 5, 1887, a day Keller would forever remember as my soul's birthday.Sullivan immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with "d-o-l-l" for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present. Keller was frustrated, at first, because she did not understand that every object had a word uniquely identifying it. In fact, when Sullivan was trying to teach Keller the word for "mug", Keller became so frustrated she broke the mug. Keller's breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of "water". Writing in her autobiography, The Story of My Life, Keller recalled the moment. "I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten — a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that w-a-t-e-r meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, set it free!"Keller then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.
➡️Miss Sullivan deserves all the praise she received from Helen.
She taught her with immense patience and love.
She endured her initial stubbornness to her methodology.
She devised unique and innovative methods to
teach Helen the secrets of language, reading, speaking, imagination, and other mysteries of life.
She was always there with her in her ups and downs.
No doubt, Helen considered her teacher as her own inseparable part!
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 and expert teaching skills which made the
first years of Helen's education so beautiful.
Miss Sullivan made learning easy and fun-filled for Helen.
Miss Sullivan preferred teaching Helen out of doors in close proximity with
nature .
Miss Sullivan ensured Helen touched each and everything she learnt.
One of their favourite learning spots was Keller's Landing, an old wharf on the Tennessee river, where Helen learnt Geography.
There Helen made dams of pebbles, islands and lakes, dug river beds while Miss Sullivan described the
physical and topographical features of the round world.
Miss Sullivan would describe to Helen the burning mountains, buried cities, moving rivers of ice,
etc.
She made raised maps in the clay in relief so that Helen could feel the mountain ridges, valleys, and the devious course of rivers.
The mystery of the language was revealed to Helen by Miss Sullivan.
Miss Sullivan was an expert teacher who was trained to teach the blind children.
However, she had to be very patient and innovative while teaching Helen as she
had hearing disability too.
Miss Sullivan would often write the spelling of the all the objects on Helen's hand after allowing her to touch them.
For example
after giving her doll for a while, she would spell the word "d-o-l-l" on her hand.
Miss Sullivan had to face a great difficulty many times making things clear to Helen.
Once Helen got stuck at knowing the difference between 'water' and 'mug'.
Miss Sullivan took Helen out; she put her hand under the spout and let Helen feel the cool stream on one hand, and on her other hand
Miss Sullivan spelled the word "w-a-t-e-r".
That living word awakened her soul to the secret of learning words with their meanings.
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