Question

please give me a pen portrait
Anne sullivan

Answer 1

• lifelong companion of Helen

• teacher, guide, mentor.

• motivator

• helps Helen to believe in herself

• very supportive

• treats her like her own child

• teaches every minute thing with details

• she makes Helen “THINK”,

Answer 2

Anne Sullivan had lost her sight at a very young age. Hence, she had no skill of reading, writing or sewing or to do any other work. Therefore she had to choose the profession of being a housemaid. She was unsuccessful at this job too. She got to know about the Perkins school for the blind in Boston and took admission in it. She began her studies on October 7, 1880. She worked hard and learned many things from school. Many of the eye operations were also conducted which brought some sight back to her. She graduated at the age of 20 years in June 1886. She remarked before leaving the school that "Fellow-graduates: duty bids us go forth into active life. Let us go cheerfully, hopefully, and earnestly, and set ourselves to find our special part. When we have found it, willingly and faithfully perform it; for every obstacle we overcome, every success we achieve tends to bring man closer to God and make life more as He would have it."

Anne Sullivan and Hellen lived together for forty-nine years. During these years Sullivan taught Hellen the way to talk, think and communicate. She took the help of the Tadoma method to teach Hellen. In this method, students touch people's lips when they speak in order to feel the vibrations of the words said by the people. This type of method was initially developed at the Perkins Institute for the Blind from where Anne Sullivan had taken her education as a teacher and a student.