Question

what is the significance of the smashed doll? what does the Helen mean by saying that for the first time I felt repentance and sorrows ?​

Answer 1

MARK ME AS A BRAINLIEST

Answer 2

At first, Helen was extremely delighted, but later she cries on breaking the doll.

• The question has been asked from the story Hellen Keller.
• Anne Sullivan was trying to explain Helen the language. She understood finger-spelled words in her palm at that stage of her education.
• But she wasn't able to understand that a singular word can refer to more than one thing. She didn't understand that the word "doll" can equally apply to all dolls, not just one.
• Anne tried to make her understand repeatedly, but Helen ultimately throws her doll onto the floor in a fit of temper and breaks it. She writes that she "was delighted when she felt the broken doll fragments at her feet.
• When Anne succeeds in making Helen understand that everything has a name, Helen understands what she has done in disregarding the doll.
• She holds her hand under a stream of water and spells the word water in her palm and says for the first time that she felt repentance and sorrow.