short summary of ch 17 'the story of my life'
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For the next two years, Helen studied at the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York. Ms Sullivan attended as her interpreter. That school was chosen because it was the best for continuing the development of Helen’s speech and lip-reading skills. She also studied French. German, Math and Geography. Helen was disappointed and so were her teachers since she could not learn to speak more like other people, no matter how hard she worked at it. She did not have any liking for Maths. M in spite of these setbacks, her love for Geography and languages gave her fond memories of her time in New York. So far as the city is concerned, the only thing she liked was Central Park. She loved being engrossed in nature and her daily walks in Central Park were the closest she Scold get to her former life in the country.
The Story of My life- Novel for class 10- English CBSE
Helen Adam Keller was bom on June 27,1880. She was an American author, political activist and lecturer. Her father’s name was Arthur H. Keller. He was a captain, a former officer of the Confederate Army. Her mother was Kate Adams Keller. The Keller family originated from Switzerland. Helen contracted an illness when she was nineteen months old. It was an acute congestion of the stomach and brain which could have been scarlet fever or meningitis. She did not suffer long from this illness but it left her deaf and blind. Helen started communicating through signs with her family. In 1886, she was taken to Dr. J. Julian Chisolen who was an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist for advice who further sent them to Alexandar Graham Bell who was working with the deaf children at that time. Bell advised them to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind. On reaching there, the school’s director put Helen under the charge of their former student Anne Sullivan who herself was visually impaired.
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