Question

help! write note on mr. anagnos of the novel "the story of my life"

Answer 1

Michael Anagnos worked at the Perkins Institution for the Blind as the director. He was born in Greece, but later immigrated to the United States. He spoke both Greek and English. He was tall in stature. 

Mr. Anagnos helped Helen Keller's father find a suitable teacher for her. He found Anne Sullivan, a teacher who also had suffered from vision loss. He arranged for her to go to Alabama to help young Helen. Later, Helen attended the Perkins Insitution for a period of four years. While there, she became a dear friend of Mr. Anagnos. It was also during that time that her close friendship with Mr. Anagnos began to deteriorate. Helen wrote a short story which she later found out closely resembled another published work. Accused of purposefully plagiarizing, Helen found out that Mr. Anagnos was deeply disappointed in her. He was a man whose trust could not be regained if lost.

Answer 2

What is a character sketch of Mr. Anagnos in The Story of My Life?


by- SAKSHAM  

Below, I wrote a first-person character sketch of Mr. Anagnos, Director of the Perkins Institute for the Blind:

In the summer of 1886, Mr. Arthur Keller wrote to me at the advice of the eminent Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, asking for a teacher for his daughter Helen, who is blind and deaf. I recommended that Anne Sullivan work with Helen at the Kellers' house in Alabama. I grew to love Helen dearly.

In 1892, Helen sent me a wonderful story called "The Frost King," which I published in one of our institute's publications. The story turned out to be similar to a tale that had already been published by Margaret Canby. Though Helen explained that she had not read this story, I overheard her telling a teacher at the institute about Canby's version of Jack Frost, and I felt that Helen had lied to me. I almost had to remove Anne Sullivan as Helen's teacher, as I suspected Anne of lying about the Canby story. It turned out that another person had read Helen this story many years before, not Anne. Therefore, Anne Sullivan was allowed to remain Helen's teacher.