Write a short summary of the story of Helen Keller
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Helen Keller’s autobiography, The Story of My Life, covers the first part of the author’s life, up until her graduation from Radcliffe College. It is strongly focused on her education.
In the second year of her life, Keller became seriously ill, and her eventual recovery left her deaf and blind. Her parents took her to seeing one of the country’s leading oculists, Dr. Chisholm of Baltimore, who said that he could do nothing to cure her blindness, but that she could still be educated.
In 1887, Anne Mansfield Sullivan came to the Kellers’ home to be Keller’s teacher. Sullivan taught her pupil to spell out letters into her hand and, one day, managed to connect in her mind the cool, fresh sensation of running water with the word “water.” The following year, Keller went to study at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, and in 1890 she began to learn the elements of speech under the tuition of Sarah Fuller, principal of the Horace Mann School.
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