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Chapter 1 Summary. The Story of My Life is the autobiography of Helen Keller, written in her third year at Radcliffe College. ... Helen was born near Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 23, 1880, into a well-connected family. Her father, Arthur H. Keller, had been a Confederate Captain who was related to RobSummary. Part II of The Story of My Life is a selection of letters Helen Keller wrote throughout her education. ... Helen wrote her first letter three-and-a-half months after Miss Sullivan first arrived and began teaching her. It was to her cousin Anna on June 17, 1887.ert E. Lee.
This chapter also familiarizes readers with Miss Sullivan's own life. ... The rest of this chapter contains reports written by Miss Sullivan detailing her progress with Helen. The first was written three days after her arrival in Tuscumbia, and talks about Helen's enthusiasm when she first saw her teacher.Helen Keller reveals many important incidents in her development during the first twenty two years of her life, as told in her autobiography, The Story of My Life. Helen is far from the perfect child, purposefully upsetting those around her due to her frustrations at her inability to communicate effectively. Her parents, dedicated, become "deeply grieved and perplexed"(ch 3) anxious to find a way to help her as her outbursts become more frequent "almost hourly."
Chapter four then starts fittingly with the event that is to change Helen's life and her future. Anne Sullivan who is "to set my spirit free" (ch 1) eventually arrives at Helen's home, to begin teaching Helen. The family have waited several months for her arrival. This marks " the most important day I remember in all my life." (Ch 4) Helen is poetic and compares herself to being lost at sea, in a "dense fog" as she tries to explain her life before Annie's arrival. The importance of this day will never leave her "and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. (Ch 4)
Helen is thrilled, at first, at her ability to spell words, such as "d-o-l-l" but only because it is interesting "finger play"(ch 4) and these words mean nothing more than that to her. It soon becomes an irritation for Helen, spelling the words and, in one of her tantrums, she breaks the doll that Miss Sullivan brought her. She feels a smug satisfaction that the source of her irritation has been removed. As with most things, Helen moves on to the next thing as they go out into the garden.
A short while later, " the mystery of language was revealed to me" as Helen is able to make the connection between "W-A-T-E-R" (ch 4) and water - "the wonderful cool something." This signifies far more than just language for Helen; it gives her existence meaning. She even tries to fix the broken doll and "for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow." Helen remembers learning the words for mother, father, teacher and sister amongst others and can't wait for a new day to start so she can continue learning "the living word." Chapter 5 Summary. The rest of the summer, Helen built her vocabulary. ... Helen also learned to fear the power of nature. One day that summer, she was in a tree, waiting for her teacher to return with lunch, when a storm suddenly arose.Anne Sullivan reasoned that normal children learn language by being exposed to it constantly. Thus, she "spoke" to Helen constantly, using the manual alphabet to help Helen learn the words and figures of speech people used in speaking to each other.Chapter 7 Summary. As soon as she could fingerspell some words, Helen began learning to read, using slips of cardboard with words printed in raised letters. At first, she would attach the correct words to objects and spell out sentences about them, such as "doll is on bed," or "girl is in wardrobe."
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This chapter also familiarizes readers with Miss Sullivan's own life. ... The rest of this chapter contains reports written by Miss Sullivan detailing her progress with Helen. The first was written three days after her arrival in Tuscumbia, and talks about Helen's enthusiasm when she first saw her teacher.Helen Keller reveals many important incidents in her development during the first twenty two years of her life, as told in her autobiography, The Story of My Life. Helen is far from the perfect child, purposefully upsetting those around her due to her frustrations at her inability to communicate effectively. Her parents, dedicated, become "deeply grieved and perplexed"(ch 3) anxious to find a way to help her as her outbursts become more frequent "almost hourly."
Chapter four then starts fittingly with the event that is to change Helen's life and her future. Anne Sullivan who is "to set my spirit free" (ch 1) eventually arrives at Helen's home, to begin teaching Helen. The family have waited several months for her arrival. This marks " the most important day I remember in all my life." (Ch 4) Helen is poetic and compares herself to being lost at sea, in a "dense fog" as she tries to explain her life before Annie's arrival. The importance of this day will never leave her "and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. (Ch 4)
Helen is thrilled, at first, at her ability to spell words, such as "d-o-l-l" but only because it is interesting "finger play"(ch 4) and these words mean nothing more than that to her. It soon becomes an irritation for Helen, spelling the words and, in one of her tantrums, she breaks the doll that Miss Sullivan brought her. She feels a smug satisfaction that the source of her irritation has been removed. As with most things, Helen moves on to the next thing as they go out into the garden.
A short while later, " the mystery of language was revealed to me" as Helen is able to make the connection between "W-A-T-E-R" (ch 4) and water - "the wonderful cool something." This signifies far more than just language for Helen; it gives her existence meaning. She even tries to fix the broken doll and "for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow." Helen remembers learning the words for mother, father, teacher and sister amongst others and can't wait for a new day to start so she can continue learning "the living word." Chapter 5 Summary. The rest of the summer, Helen built her vocabulary. ... Helen also learned to fear the power of nature. One day that summer, she was in a tree, waiting for her teacher to return with lunch, when a storm suddenly arose.Anne Sullivan reasoned that normal children learn language by being exposed to it constantly. Thus, she "spoke" to Helen constantly, using the manual alphabet to help Helen learn the words and figures of speech people used in speaking to each other.Chapter 7 Summary. As soon as she could fingerspell some words, Helen began learning to read, using slips of cardboard with words printed in raised letters. At first, she would attach the correct words to objects and spell out sentences about them, such as "doll is on bed," or "girl is in wardrobe."
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