Question

Was Anne Sullivan towards helen keller supportive or motherly??

Answer 1

     The ability of Helen Keller to surmount her handicaps and learn to read, write, and speak despite her deafness and blindness was a miracle, and people responded to her story with emotions that ranged from admiration and incredulity to disbelief.  In Helen Keller’s own eyes, she believed that her success was due to the constant support of and undying encouragement from her teacher, Annie Sullivan, who persevered in showing her temperamental and uncooperative student how to establish some sort of communication and contact with a world that Helen could not see, hear, nor understand.  Suffering from an ailment that left her own sight impaired, Sullivan was able to understand the fear, loneliness, and frustration that Helen felt in her tiny isolated world of silence and darkness.  This understanding allowed Sullivan to do what others had failed to do for Helen:  empathize with her student without letting the latter to get away with whatever the latter wished to do.  This resolute teacher was finally rewarded for her efforts with an extremely eager student, who demonstrated a thirst for knowledge once the barrier formed by her handicaps that isolated her from the outside gradually started to crumble because of the diligence of Annie Sullivan.  Sullivan was not only Helen Keller’s teacher, mentor, friend, and role model, but she was also a mother figure, whose nurturing and care allowed a lost and lonely child to grow and mature into a selfless and compassionate adult, who followed in her mentor’s footsteps to work for the well-being of the blind and deaf, as well as other unfortunate people