Question

summary for chapter 14 hellen keller

Answer 1

In this chapter, Helen describes the writing of the story ‘The Frost King’ and the appreciation she received from her family. Although she received great joy in composing the story, her joy was short-lived. She sent the story to Mr Anagnos as a birthday gift. Mr Anagnos was delighted with the story and published it in one of his institution’s reports. However, this innocent gift backfired as people found similarities between Helen’s story and another story titled the ‘Frost Fairies’. Mr Anagnos was annoyed and believed that she had copied the story and sent it to him under her own name. He thought that Helen and Miss Sullivan had deliberately stolen the thoughts of others and imposed them on him to win his admiration. He made Helen face a court of investigation composed of teachers and officers of the institution which passed a judgment implicating Helen of copying. Helen went into deep depression as a result and lost all confidence in herself. Mr Anagnos cut off all relations with her. Helen ends this chapter by making clear that her intention in giving an account of the event was neither to defend herself nor to put the blame on anyone but simply because this particular incident was important in her life and education.

Answer 2

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Chapter - 14

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The Winter of 1892 was darkened buy one cloud in helen's childhood's bright Sky. She weathered her first public controversy at the age of eleven. After she learned to speak, she wrote down a story which she thought was her own. She titled it “ The Frost King” and sent it to Mr. Anagnos at perkins Institute. He promptly published it in one of the school's publications and was embarrassed when it turned out that the story was plagiarized. The original story was by Margaret T. Canby and called “ The Frost Fairies”.

An anonymous Council of eight adults and Mr anagnos questioned Helen at the perkins institute to find out if she had plagiarized this story on purpose. She did not remember hearing of canby's story before, but now believes that she must have heard it when she was younger and forgotten about it. The whole incident was traumatic for her and she lost the friendship of one of her dearest friends Mr. Anagnos. Helen gives this account of the “Frost King” affair because it was important in her life and education and that there might not be any misunderstanding. She laid forth all the facts as they appear to her without a thought of defending herself or of laying blame on anyone.