Question

Why did Helen feel that the children at perkings institition had second sight?

Answer 1

This was because, although the children at the Perkins Institute were blind like Helen, they had the sense of hearing which Helen was didn't have and therefore she refers to their SENSE OF HEARING as second sight

Answer 2

Helen wrote tirelessly about her motivation for activism, which was the driving force behind her interest in blindness and other disabilities. He had been married twice; the year after his first wife's widowhood, he had married Kate Adams, twenty years his junior. Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, the administrative center of Colbert County, where her parents had a farm, "Ivy Green," built by Helen's grandfather in 1820. Although her father's proposed name had been Mildred Campbell in honoring her great-grandmother, her mother decided that she should bear the middle name of her maternal grandmother, Helen Everett.11 However, her father, out of excitement, forgot part of the name on the way to church and was eventually inscribed as Helen Adams.