How did helen enjoy her first christmas celebration?
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helen enjoyed it by getting gifts from Santa and eating his favourite food in his home
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The first Christmas the little girl could remember was the one in 1887. It would shine in her memory until adulthood. She was awestruck the first time she realized that trees "grew" in parlors each December, their limbs laden with fruits and treats, waiting for children to pick them.
On Christmas Eve, the girl went to a party with other children in town and was overjoyed by the feeling of excitement brought on by chaos and lights. The children made a game of forming symbols in the girls' hand, and she was happy they wanted to play with her. She had recently learned that Christmas was about giving, a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. The understanding that shone in her eyes evoked the emotion of her parents.
Her mother wept and gave thanks. Her father, a stoic man, was left speechless, the emotion obvious on his face.
For six previous Christmases, the girl had been unaware that there was a special day set aside to enjoy giving to others. Dec. 25 had been like every other day in her life: dark, silent days in which the only goal was to fulfill her wants and needs for food, shelter, comfort and sleep. She knew nothing else.
But the summer of her seventh year, a door suddenly opened and let light into the lonely world of little Helen Keller. The light came in the form of Anne Sullivan, a woman who taught Helen words and showed her that people can communicate, even those who are deaf and blind. Until Anne came to their home in Tuscumbia, Ala., Helen had been like a wild animal. Unable to communicate, she roamed from room to room, grunting and pointing and taking what she wanted. Helen's world did not exist outside of Helen's desires.
She was born June 27, 1880, at the simple picturesque home call Ivy Green, which had been built in 1820 by Helen's grandfather and which is open as a museum today. When she was 19 months old, Helen contracted a high fever that left her deaf and blind. Because she could not hear, she was also unable to learn to speak.
Anne came to the Keller home and, after a little tough love, finally got through to the little girl. In a moment now famous in American history, Helen learned the word "water" as Anne spelled it into one hand while pumping water over the other. Tourists can visit that famous water pump at Ivy Green.
Helen's world became alight with possibilities. By December, Helen had a broader vocabulary and an understanding of her place in the greater world around her. She was ready to celebrate her "first" Christmas.
Anne would later write: "For weeks we did nothing but talk and read and tell each other stories about Christmas." Helen and the woman she knew as Teacher devised surprises for Helen's parents and others in the household, which gave the little girl great joy.
In her memoir "The Story of My Life," Helen wrote, "The mystery that surrounded the gifts was my greatest delight and amusement. My friends did all they could to excite my curiosity by hints and half-spelled sentences which they pretended to break off in the nick of time."
Soon, Helen could comprehend the concept of gifts and decorated trees. For the first time, she understood she was invited to parties to share in games with other children. At a party at the local school, Helen was given the honor of distributing gifts, a job she took seriously. After handing out treats to each child, Helen noticed that one little girl. Nellie, did not receive as many gifts as the other children.
She signed to Teacher: "I will give Nellie mug."
Anne later wrote: "She had chosen the prettiest gift and the one which had pleased her most to give a little stranger." That night, the excited Helen hung two stockings, just in case Santa Claus could not find the first.
She woke her family early the next morning, frantically spelling, "Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!" She found surprises on the table, chairs and at the door and on window sills.
"I could hardly walk without stumbling on a bit of Christmas wrapped up in tissue paper," Helen later wrote.
In was one of the happiest times in the young girl's life. She couldn't know then that she would learn to speak, graduate from college and become a world-renowned author, lecturer and celebrity. The first Christmas instilled in Helen a love for the wondrous holiday and formed the basis of her belief that blind people could, if they chose, truly "see the world."
On Christmas Eve, the girl went to a party with other children in town and was overjoyed by the feeling of excitement brought on by chaos and lights. The children made a game of forming symbols in the girls' hand, and she was happy they wanted to play with her. She had recently learned that Christmas was about giving, a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. The understanding that shone in her eyes evoked the emotion of her parents.
Her mother wept and gave thanks. Her father, a stoic man, was left speechless, the emotion obvious on his face.
For six previous Christmases, the girl had been unaware that there was a special day set aside to enjoy giving to others. Dec. 25 had been like every other day in her life: dark, silent days in which the only goal was to fulfill her wants and needs for food, shelter, comfort and sleep. She knew nothing else.
But the summer of her seventh year, a door suddenly opened and let light into the lonely world of little Helen Keller. The light came in the form of Anne Sullivan, a woman who taught Helen words and showed her that people can communicate, even those who are deaf and blind. Until Anne came to their home in Tuscumbia, Ala., Helen had been like a wild animal. Unable to communicate, she roamed from room to room, grunting and pointing and taking what she wanted. Helen's world did not exist outside of Helen's desires.
She was born June 27, 1880, at the simple picturesque home call Ivy Green, which had been built in 1820 by Helen's grandfather and which is open as a museum today. When she was 19 months old, Helen contracted a high fever that left her deaf and blind. Because she could not hear, she was also unable to learn to speak.
Anne came to the Keller home and, after a little tough love, finally got through to the little girl. In a moment now famous in American history, Helen learned the word "water" as Anne spelled it into one hand while pumping water over the other. Tourists can visit that famous water pump at Ivy Green.
Helen's world became alight with possibilities. By December, Helen had a broader vocabulary and an understanding of her place in the greater world around her. She was ready to celebrate her "first" Christmas.
Anne would later write: "For weeks we did nothing but talk and read and tell each other stories about Christmas." Helen and the woman she knew as Teacher devised surprises for Helen's parents and others in the household, which gave the little girl great joy.
In her memoir "The Story of My Life," Helen wrote, "The mystery that surrounded the gifts was my greatest delight and amusement. My friends did all they could to excite my curiosity by hints and half-spelled sentences which they pretended to break off in the nick of time."
Soon, Helen could comprehend the concept of gifts and decorated trees. For the first time, she understood she was invited to parties to share in games with other children. At a party at the local school, Helen was given the honor of distributing gifts, a job she took seriously. After handing out treats to each child, Helen noticed that one little girl. Nellie, did not receive as many gifts as the other children.
She signed to Teacher: "I will give Nellie mug."
Anne later wrote: "She had chosen the prettiest gift and the one which had pleased her most to give a little stranger." That night, the excited Helen hung two stockings, just in case Santa Claus could not find the first.
She woke her family early the next morning, frantically spelling, "Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!" She found surprises on the table, chairs and at the door and on window sills.
"I could hardly walk without stumbling on a bit of Christmas wrapped up in tissue paper," Helen later wrote.
In was one of the happiest times in the young girl's life. She couldn't know then that she would learn to speak, graduate from college and become a world-renowned author, lecturer and celebrity. The first Christmas instilled in Helen a love for the wondrous holiday and formed the basis of her belief that blind people could, if they chose, truly "see the world."
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