How Miss Sullivan taught the meaning of love to helen?
(the story of my life.)
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One day, Helen was rearranging beads of different sizes, she made mistakes in arranging them. Miss Sullivan told Helen to think. Helen thought and in a flash of a second she felt elated that she had known about abstract ideas ( Ideas which cannot be explained).
Initially, helen had a very scanty and an inadequate vocabulary. Hence, even if certain things were not clear to her, she would neither frame questions nor express her doubts. Consequently, she rarely asked a question. However, gradually when her field of knowledge broadened and her language got enriched, her inquisitiveness made her put more and more questions. The abstract and intangible ideas that she could not experience in their concrete form repeatedly became the subject of her enquiry. The feeling of love that her teacher couldn't show her because she couldn't make her touch it, made the child refer to the word again and again. She kept on drawing parallels between love and the sweetness of flower; the warmth of sun, the setting sun and repeatedly asked the teacher to explain what love was. Eventually, the child felt satisfied only when she realised that love was a bond between her and the people around her.