the Helen earlier childhood day..
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Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. ... At the age of 19 months, Helen became deaf and blind as a result of an unknown illness, perhaps rubella or scarlet fever. As Helen grew from infancy into childhood, she became wild and unruly.
1.Helen was a bright and intelligent child. she could speak some works at the age of six months and even copy others. As she was the first child of the family,many discussions took place to her name. Helen quotes that "I came, I saw and I conquered."
2. When she was only 19months old Helen suffered from acute congestion of brain and stomach which left her deaf and blind. Slowly when the words gestures started lacking for explanations , there were frequent outbursts of temper.
3. In her childhood Helens 's paradise was the beautiful garden of Ivygreen.
"Even before my teacher came I used to feel along the square stiff boxwood hedges, and, guided by the sense of smell, would find the first violets and lilies. There, too, after a fit of temper, I went to find comfort and to hide my hot face in the cool leaves and grass. What joy it was to lose myself in that garden of flowers, to wander happily from spot to spot, until, coming suddenly upon a beautiful vine, I recognized it by its leaves and blossoms, and knew it was the vine which covered the tumble-down summer-house at the farther end of the garden! Here, also, were trailing clematis, drooping jesamine, and some rare sweet flowers called butterfly lilies, because their fragile petals resemble butterflies' wings. But the roses--they were loveliest of all. Never have I found in the greenhouses of the North such heart-satisfying roses as the climbing roses of my southern home. They used to hang in long festoons from our porch, filling the whole air with their fragrance, untainted by any earthy smell; and in the early morning, washed in the dew, they felt so soft, so pure, I could not help wondering if they did not resemble the asphodels of God's garden."
4. In her chihdhood her constant companions were Martha Washington(the child of their cook) and Belle(an old setter dog). Helen has given a vivid discription about them in the second chapter.
5. Also Helen loved pranks . When she learned the use of keys she locked her mother in the kitchen one morning. Helen's mother kept on beating the door yet she laughed outside . She played the same prank later on with her teacher.
6. But yet she hadnt seen the light and knowlegede before the arrival of her teacher and when Miss Sullivan came Helen says"Thus I came out from Egypt to Sinai and a power divine touched my soul and gave it sight so that I behold many wonders and from a sacred mountain I heard Knowledge is love light and companionship."
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