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Summary of the novel the story of my life chapter1 to 14

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Chapter-1


Helen was born on 27th June, 1880 in Tuscumbia, a

little town of northern Alabama in USA. Nineteen months after her birth, Helen

fell ill which left her with visual and hearing disabilities.


Chapter 2


Helen could not communicate with anyone except her own sign

language until she became seven years old.  Helen’s disabilities often annoyed her and she

lost her temper quite often. She would often kick her nurse Ella. Martha

Washington, the coloured girl was her childhood companion. Together they had

lots of fun doing mischief and pranks. Helen got herself in many precarious

situations owing to her inability to see and hear. Helen felt jealous of her

sister Mildred and even threw her once out of her cradle.


Chapter 3


Helen’s parents had an intense wish to educate their

disabled daughter. Helen’s mother came to know about Laura Bridgeman who had

similar disabilities as Helen and who had been successfully taught. Helen’s

father took Helen to Baltimore to see an eye-specialist with the hope of

getting Helen treated. She enjoyed the trip and behaved herself throughout the

journey. Dr. Chisholm expressed his inability to treat Helen. However, he

suggested the family to meet Dr. Graham Bell who could help them. The family

met Alexander Graham Bell who recommended the Kellers hire a teacher to help

their special daughter.


Chapter 4


Anne Sullivan, a young teacher with her own vision problems,

arrived at the Keller home in early March of 1887.She started teaching Helen

manual alphabet to which Helen did not respond encouragingly. Nothing clicked

until a few weeks after her arrival when she tried to teach Helen the

difference between “mug” and “water.”


Chapter 5


After Helen understood that things had names- and she could

learn those names from her teacher’s finger-spelling- her vocabulary grew. Then,

during the summer of 1887, she learned about the power of nature when a storm

came upon her while she was outside…on her own.


Chapter 6


Once she recognized things and actions had names, Helen

needed to comprehend abstract subjects. Trying to solve a problem, she felt her

teacher’s hand on her forehead while Miss Sullivan emphatically spelled “THINK.”

“In a flash,” Helen recognized that’s what she was doing- thinking.


Chapter 7


In her early days of learning, Helen worked outside with

Anne. It seemed like play since she had not yet commenced formal lessons. Helen

began to put words together in sentences, like “doll is on the bed.” The first

book she actually read was “Reader for Beginners.”


Chapter 8


At the age of seven, Helen Keller experienced her first real

Christmas. She gave, as well as received, presents. She was even invited to

participate with the local school children on Christmas Eve. Excited about what

was to come, she was the first to awake on Christmas morning.


Chapter 9


Helen visited the Perkins

Institute for the Blind in May of 1888. For the first time in her life, she met

the other children who used the manual alphabet. It was, she said, like coming

home to her own country, she toured places around Boston and especially loved Plymouth

Rock (because she could touch it).


Chapter 10


After his visit to Boston, Helen

and her teacher took a Cape-Cod holiday during which the child first

experienced the ocean. When a wave pulled her underwater, she was very

frightened. Also puzzled, she asked Anne Sullivan: “Who put salt in the water?”


Chapter 11


Vacationing with her family in the

mountains near Tuscumbia, Helen experienced the joys of childhood: riding a

pony, hunting for permissions and exploring in the woods. Then… she, her sister

Mildred and Miss Sullivan got lost! How would they find their way back?


Chapter 12


As a child of South, Helen had not

experienced snow before the winter of 1889. While in the North, she played

outside in the cold weather. Her favorite winter sport was tobogganing- which

she was able to do with help.


Chapter 13


Even though she’d made great

progress, Helen was frustrated because she could not speak. She’d read about a

deaf-blind Norwegian girl, named Ragnhild Kaata, who had learned to do what

Helen longed for. At the Horace Mann School for the Deaf, Sarah Fuller worked

with her. Helen’s first spoken sentence was “It is warm.”


Chapter 14


When she was 11, Helen wrote a

story she thought was her own, and “The Frost King” was published by the

director of the Perkins Institute. She had not recalled someone had once read “The

Frost Fairies” (by Margaret T. Canby) to her. Eight people interrogated Helen, about

her plagiarized story. It was not an easy time for the child.



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