summary of story of my life chapter 9 - 15
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chapter 9
In May of 1888, Helen, her mother, and Miss Sullivan took a journey by train to Boston to the Perkins Institution for the Blind. Helen was no longer restless and excitable, and did not require the attention of everyone on the train to keep her amused. Instead, Helen sat quietly beside Miss Sullivan, who spelled into Helen’s hands descriptions of the countryside as it flew by. At the school, Helen was thrilled to meet friends and classmates who were just like her. Helen was thrilled to be in Boston, and delighted in taking in the history of the city as well as her new friends. She visited Bunker Hill and Plymouth Rock, and learned the wonderful stories behind the histories of both places. Helen, having made so many wonderful new friends in Boston, forevermore referred to the place as “the City of Kind Hearts.”
chapter 10
After visiting Boston, Helen and her teacher vacationed at Cape Cod with a friend, Mrs. Hopkins. The first time she was in the ocean, Helen was pulled under and badly frightened. She asked Anne Sullivan, "Who put salt in the water?" After that, she enjoyed being splashed by the waves from her seat on a large rock. For a few hours, she took possession of a horseshoe crab. She dragged it to the Hopkins home from the beach, but it escaped the first night.
chapter 11
When fall arrived, Helen traveled with her family to Fern Quarry for their vacation in the mountains outside Tuscumbia. There, Helen spent her days riding her pony, walking outdoors or gathering persimmons with her little sister Mildred and their cousins.
One day, Helen, Mildred and Miss Sullivan got lost in the woods. Mildred recognized a railroad trestle over a deep gorge, which they decided to use to find their way home. As they were crossing the trestle, a train approached. The three climbed underneath, onto the cross braces, and held on to the swaying trestles, terrified, while the train went overhead.
chapter 12
That winter, and almost every winter afterward, Helen spent in the North. When she was almost nine years old, Helen experienced snow for the first time. Her favorite sport was tobogganing.
chapter 13
The spring of 1890 found Helen restless and frustrated once again. When she was younger, her homemade sign language was an adequate mode of expression. Now, her need to communicate had grown beyond fingerspelling. She wanted to learn to speak. Her friends discouraged her, trying to protect her from disappointment. However, Helen learned about Ragnhild Kaata, a deaf and blind girl in Norway, who had learned to talk. Helen nagged Anne Sullivan until the teacher took her to see Sarah Fuller, principal of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf.
chapter 14
Fuller herself became Helen's speech teacher. Helen felt the positions of Fuller's tongue and lips as she made sounds. As usual, Helen was a quick learner. Her first spoken senHelen weathered her first public controversy at the age of 11. 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. Agnagnos 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 Helen spent the summer and winter after the “Frost King” incident with her family in Alabama. There, she began writing down the story of her life. She was still nervous and “excessively scrupulous” about everything she wrote, and she often confessed to Miss Sullivan that she was second-guessing herself and worried that the things she was writing were not her own ideas. Miss Sullivan consoled her, and the twelve-year-old Helen “timidly, fearfully, but resolutely” persevered in writing a brief account of her life for the Youth’s Companion. Helen was no longer living the “unconscious life of a little child;” she was now self-aware, cautious, and clear-minded.
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In May of 1888, Helen, her mother, and Miss Sullivan took a journey by train to Boston to the Perkins Institution for the Blind. Helen was no longer restless and excitable, and did not require the attention of everyone on the train to keep her amused. Instead, Helen sat quietly beside Miss Sullivan, who spelled into Helen’s hands descriptions of the countryside as it flew by. At the school, Helen was thrilled to meet friends and classmates who were just like her. Helen was thrilled to be in Boston, and delighted in taking in the history of the city as well as her new friends. She visited Bunker Hill and Plymouth Rock, and learned the wonderful stories behind the histories of both places. Helen, having made so many wonderful new friends in Boston, forevermore referred to the place as “the City of Kind Hearts.”
chapter 10
After visiting Boston, Helen and her teacher vacationed at Cape Cod with a friend, Mrs. Hopkins. The first time she was in the ocean, Helen was pulled under and badly frightened. She asked Anne Sullivan, "Who put salt in the water?" After that, she enjoyed being splashed by the waves from her seat on a large rock. For a few hours, she took possession of a horseshoe crab. She dragged it to the Hopkins home from the beach, but it escaped the first night.
chapter 11
When fall arrived, Helen traveled with her family to Fern Quarry for their vacation in the mountains outside Tuscumbia. There, Helen spent her days riding her pony, walking outdoors or gathering persimmons with her little sister Mildred and their cousins.
One day, Helen, Mildred and Miss Sullivan got lost in the woods. Mildred recognized a railroad trestle over a deep gorge, which they decided to use to find their way home. As they were crossing the trestle, a train approached. The three climbed underneath, onto the cross braces, and held on to the swaying trestles, terrified, while the train went overhead.
chapter 12
That winter, and almost every winter afterward, Helen spent in the North. When she was almost nine years old, Helen experienced snow for the first time. Her favorite sport was tobogganing.
chapter 13
The spring of 1890 found Helen restless and frustrated once again. When she was younger, her homemade sign language was an adequate mode of expression. Now, her need to communicate had grown beyond fingerspelling. She wanted to learn to speak. Her friends discouraged her, trying to protect her from disappointment. However, Helen learned about Ragnhild Kaata, a deaf and blind girl in Norway, who had learned to talk. Helen nagged Anne Sullivan until the teacher took her to see Sarah Fuller, principal of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf.
chapter 14
Fuller herself became Helen's speech teacher. Helen felt the positions of Fuller's tongue and lips as she made sounds. As usual, Helen was a quick learner. Her first spoken senHelen weathered her first public controversy at the age of 11. 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. Agnagnos 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 Helen spent the summer and winter after the “Frost King” incident with her family in Alabama. There, she began writing down the story of her life. She was still nervous and “excessively scrupulous” about everything she wrote, and she often confessed to Miss Sullivan that she was second-guessing herself and worried that the things she was writing were not her own ideas. Miss Sullivan consoled her, and the twelve-year-old Helen “timidly, fearfully, but resolutely” persevered in writing a brief account of her life for the Youth’s Companion. Helen was no longer living the “unconscious life of a little child;” she was now self-aware, cautious, and clear-minded.