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write a summary of helen keller chapterwise.

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Answer 1

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller Summary CBSE Class 10 English Literature

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The Story of My Life by Helen Keller Summary CBSE Class 10 English Literature

The Story of My Life —Helen Keller

About the Author

Helen Adam Keller was bom on June 27,1880. She was an American author, political activist and lecturer. Her father’s name was Arthur H. Keller. He was a captain, a former officer of the Confederate Army. Her mother was Kate Adams Keller. The Keller family originated from Switzerland. Helen contracted an illness when she was nineteen months old. It was an acute congestion of the stomach and brain which could have been scarlet fever or meningitis. She did not suffer long from this illness but it left her deaf and blind. Helen started communicating through signs with her family. In 1886, she was taken to Dr. J. Julian Chisolen who was an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist for advice who further sent them to Alexandar Graham Bell who was working with the deaf children at that time. Bell advised them to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind. On reaching there, the school’s director put Helen under the charge of their former student Anne Sullivan who herself was visually impaired.

Anne Sullivan began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hands which Helen quickly leamt. In 1894, they both moved to New York to attend Wright-Humason School for the Deaf and Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1900, Helen gained admission in Radcliffe College. At the age of 24, in 1904, she graduated from the same college and became the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Anne Sullivan stayed as a companion for 20 long years with Helen but after marriage her health started failing and Polly Thompson was hired to keep house.

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Answer 2

The beginning of the story gives some background on Helen's family and sets up the challenges she faced as a blind and deaf child. She makes breakthroughs in overcoming the setbacks of her disabilities by meeting Alexander Graham Bell and Anne Sullivan, who helped Helen communicate and not be discouraged. Her education allows her to experience and enjoy the world that previously frustrated her.
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is an inspirational account of Helen's attempts to make sense of her "dayless" world and the people with whom she shared it. By the close of Chapter 9 it is already clear to the reader that Helen is a determined child who, despite enormous odds, is sure to succeed. Her stubbornness has become one of her strongest attributes.