Question

summary of the first chapter of the novel Helen Keller

Answer 1

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Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in a small town called Tuscumbia, Alabama. She lived on the Keller homestead, specifically in a tiny cottage built on the property at the very beginning of her life. She remembers the plants, vines, and flowers that surrounded her very clearly, and their smell remained with her even after she lost her hearing and sight. She lived only a little more than a year of life before the illness came that made her blind and deaf, and it was so terrible that the doctors believed she would die. She was stricken so young the she does not remember the world before it went dark, but she thinks fondly of the way her teacher came to bring her world back to life again.


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Answer 2

With a kind of fear,” Helen Keller begins telling the story of her life. She has hesitated to “lift the veil” which has been lain over the story of her childhood, finding it difficult to communicate her earliest memories and impressions. As a grown woman, she finds herself rendering her childhood through the lens of her own present perceptions and ideas, and moreover finds that many of the emotions and memories from her younger years have lost their potency and poignancy. Having communicated all this to her readers, Helen vows to present only the “most interesting and important” episodes from her life over the span of her autobiography.