Summary of Story of my life grade 10 chapter 1 to 5
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chapter 1
Helen felt some hesitation while writing her story. She thinks writing down autobiography is a hard task. It is not easy to present the exact picture of childhood as she could not clearly distinguish between the facts and fancy as lots of years passed by. She had forgotten many important events of her childhood in the process of learning new things.
Helen Keller was born on 27th June, 1880 in Tuscumbia, a little town of northern Alabama. She was eldest daughter of Arthur H. Keller who was a captain in the Confederate Army and Kate Adams. Her father’s ancestors came from Switzerland and settled in Maryland.
The beginning of her life was just like any other child. It was decided that she should be named after her grandmother but her father lost her name on the way of church for baptism. When being asked he told her name Helen Adams and she got her name.
She could walk when she was a year old. Happy days were going but when she was nineteen months old she got ill. The doctor identified illness as acute congestion of the stomach and brain. This illness took away her eyesight and her hearing ability. Gradually, she got used to silence and darkness until her teacher came in her life.
chapter 2
In the initial months after her illness, Helen either sat in her mother’s lap or cling to her dress when she went about doing her household chores. She touched every object and observed every motion thus enabling her to understand the outer world. She started communicating using sign language. A shake of her head meant ‘No’ and a nod ‘Yes’, a pull meant ‘Come’ and push ‘Go’. Her mother was of great help to her and she turned her long dark nights into bright and good ones with her wisdom. She was always sent for when they had guests and she waved her hand to them when they took their leave.
But after sometime, Helen started realising that she was different from others. She noticed that sign language was not used by other people but they used their lips to talk. She used to touch their lips and then hers. She could feel the difference and sometimes she used to get so angry that she kicked and screamed till she got exhausted.
Helen was a naughty girl. She used to kick her nurse Ella and dominated her cook’s daughter Martha Washington. Her sources of interest were the sheds where the com was stored, the stable where horses were kept and the yards where the cows were milked. Once she was saved from fire by her old nurse, Viny. In this way her mischiefs kept on increasing. By this time, she had found out the use of a key and locked her mother in the pantry for three hours. Her mother kept on pounding on the’door, while she sat outside on the steps and laughed. This was the naughtiest prank ever done by Helen and Miss Sullivan was appointed as a teacher. But Helen locked even her and hid the key under the wardrobe in the hall. Miss Sullivan was taken out through the window.
Helen’s father was most loving and devoted to his home. Apart from this he was a great hunter. He loved being hospitable and seldom came home without bringing a guest. He raised watermelons and strawberries in his special big garden. Her father was a story-teller also and used to spell clumsily into Helen’s hands some of his cleverest anecdotes. But unfortunately after a short illness, he died in 1896.
Helen’s mother was equally near Helen’s heart. So much so that she regarded her little sister as an intruder out of jealousy. Once she overturned the cradle in which her little sister was sleeping just because it belonged to Nancy, Helen’s doll. She was saved from falling by her mother. Later on, both of them became good friends.
for a new day to come.
Helen felt some hesitation while writing her story. She thinks writing down autobiography is a hard task. It is not easy to present the exact picture of childhood as she could not clearly distinguish between the facts and fancy as lots of years passed by. She had forgotten many important events of her childhood in the process of learning new things.
Helen Keller was born on 27th June, 1880 in Tuscumbia, a little town of northern Alabama. She was eldest daughter of Arthur H. Keller who was a captain in the Confederate Army and Kate Adams. Her father’s ancestors came from Switzerland and settled in Maryland.
The beginning of her life was just like any other child. It was decided that she should be named after her grandmother but her father lost her name on the way of church for baptism. When being asked he told her name Helen Adams and she got her name.
She could walk when she was a year old. Happy days were going but when she was nineteen months old she got ill. The doctor identified illness as acute congestion of the stomach and brain. This illness took away her eyesight and her hearing ability. Gradually, she got used to silence and darkness until her teacher came in her life.
chapter 2
In the initial months after her illness, Helen either sat in her mother’s lap or cling to her dress when she went about doing her household chores. She touched every object and observed every motion thus enabling her to understand the outer world. She started communicating using sign language. A shake of her head meant ‘No’ and a nod ‘Yes’, a pull meant ‘Come’ and push ‘Go’. Her mother was of great help to her and she turned her long dark nights into bright and good ones with her wisdom. She was always sent for when they had guests and she waved her hand to them when they took their leave.
But after sometime, Helen started realising that she was different from others. She noticed that sign language was not used by other people but they used their lips to talk. She used to touch their lips and then hers. She could feel the difference and sometimes she used to get so angry that she kicked and screamed till she got exhausted.
Helen was a naughty girl. She used to kick her nurse Ella and dominated her cook’s daughter Martha Washington. Her sources of interest were the sheds where the com was stored, the stable where horses were kept and the yards where the cows were milked. Once she was saved from fire by her old nurse, Viny. In this way her mischiefs kept on increasing. By this time, she had found out the use of a key and locked her mother in the pantry for three hours. Her mother kept on pounding on the’door, while she sat outside on the steps and laughed. This was the naughtiest prank ever done by Helen and Miss Sullivan was appointed as a teacher. But Helen locked even her and hid the key under the wardrobe in the hall. Miss Sullivan was taken out through the window.
Helen’s father was most loving and devoted to his home. Apart from this he was a great hunter. He loved being hospitable and seldom came home without bringing a guest. He raised watermelons and strawberries in his special big garden. Her father was a story-teller also and used to spell clumsily into Helen’s hands some of his cleverest anecdotes. But unfortunately after a short illness, he died in 1896.
Helen’s mother was equally near Helen’s heart. So much so that she regarded her little sister as an intruder out of jealousy. Once she overturned the cradle in which her little sister was sleeping just because it belonged to Nancy, Helen’s doll. She was saved from falling by her mother. Later on, both of them became good friends.
for a new day to come.
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