give a pen portrait of Dr Alexander Graham Bell
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Dr. Alexander Graham Bell was an inventor and a teacher of a deaf. He is known for his great invention of telephone, as he patented the first telephone. In 1886, Helen met him for the first time in Washington when she was six-years old. This proved to be the beginning of their long friendship. It also became the foundation for Helen's education and life. Helen has dedicated her autobiography to him. Helen described him as being full of "tenderness and sympathy" toward her. Dr. Bell was patient and understanding with Helen in a time when no one did. He had family members who were deaf, so he had sympathy for Helen's plight.
He was a great doctor but he allowed Helen to play with his watch and held her on his knee. He also understood her signs, and he advised her father to write to Mr. Anagnos, then head of the Perkins Institution in Boston, a school for blind people. After which Anne Sullivan came to teach Helen and fostered her learning.
In 1893, Helen traveled to the World's Fair and went around the exhibits with Dr. Graham Bell. She also spent time with him in Washington and in his lab on Cape Breton Island, where he explained scientific experiments to her in interesting terms. In her narrative, he emerges as a kind man who is brilliant and yet still able to connect with children.