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The Story of My Life Summary

In The Story of My Life, author and activist Helen Keller recounts her early education with Anne Sullivan from the Perkins Institute for the Blind. An illness left Keller deaf and blind at eighteen months, and she's unable to communicate until Sullivan teaches her the manual alphabet. 

Sullivan's then-unorthodox teaching methods prove a success. Keller learns how to use the manual alphabet and from there learns how to read.

Keller describes a number of trips she takes with her family. On one of the trips, she goes to Boston, where she meets other blind children at the Perkins Institute. On another, she learns how to toboggan.

Keller enrolls at the Cambridge School for Young Ladies in preparation for her entrance exams to Radcliffe. She goes to college, but finds it less romantic than she imagined.


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In The Story of My Life, author and activist Helen Keller recounts her early education with Anne Sullivan from the Perkins Institute for the Blind. An illness left Keller deaf and blind at eighteen months, and she's unable to communicate until Sullivan teaches her the manual alphabet. 

Sullivan's then-unorthodox teaching methods prove a success. Keller learns how to use the manual alphabet and from there learns how to read.

Keller describes a number of trips she takes with her family. On one of the trips, she goes to Boston, where she meets other blind children at the Perkins Institute. On another, she learns how to toboggan.

Keller enrolls at the Cambridge School for Young Ladies in preparation for her entrance exams to Radcliffe. She goes to college, but finds it less romantic than she imagined.

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The Story of My Life was written while Helen Keller, then in her early twenties, was a student at Radcliffe College. It is a moving story of the education of a child with the extreme handicap of being deaf and blind. The book begins with a rather vague description of young Helen’s earliest memories, before she became deaf and blind at the age of nineteen months, but most of it narrates her teaching by Anne Sullivan of the Perkins Institute for the Blind.

The Story of My Life is far from the cry for help that it might easily have been. The tone is one of joy. Keller emphasizes her early love of language. She recalls learning to speak before she lost her ability to see or hear and her desperate attempts to reawaken this ability. Throughout the book, there is a strong emphasis on her love of language, especially the written word, which was, after all, one of the few ways she had of relating to the outside world.

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