Drama of Helen Keller by Anwesha Jaiswal 2018

Helen Keller was born in 1880, in Tuscumbia. Her born is like every single child in every family. She brought happiness to the whole family. Everyone was full of curious and surprise about her. She said “the beginning of my life was simple and much likes every other little life. I came I saw I conquered as the first baby in the family always does.” Because of a high fever, when she was 2, then it completely changed her whole life. Her mom figure out that her eye ball did not even move when she swarmed the hand in front of her face. Later Helen did not even pay attention when her mom was calling her. Then her mom knew her daughter was blind and deaf. Like other mothers, Helen’s mother cannot even believe it and get herself out of the truth. Anyway they have to adaptation it. Since that, little Helen’s world from color to black, from noisy to quite. By the time past, Helen’s became cannot talk as short as the time past. It seriously drove her family to death. Maybe Helen did not what happen to herself. She just felt lost. She would hang on to her mother’s skirt to get around.

Helen tried to let everyone knows what she want even she cannot see or hear. When she wanted bread, she acted out the cutting of slices and buttering them. Pinching a tiny bit of skin on her had meant “small”, spreading her fingers wide and bringing her hands together meant “larger”. If it was ice-cream she wanted, she shivered and made the motion of turning the handle of the ice-cream freezer. I was always wondering how she could know if it is a stranger, she explored the unknown face, the dress and everything.

Of course, she probably made a mess at home, too. Because she cannot really say what she wants she cannot hear anything even anything happened or she was not be able to move. She locked her mom in a room for all day by accident. Her mom was knocking on the door for the whole time, but she could not hear that, and she did not even know that she did lock her mom in the room. Her mom just can wait until someone came home after their work.

When Helen was 7 year old, her family brought her a family teacher named Annie Sullivan. She was a nice lady and she almost blind when she was a little baby, too. So she can totally understand how Helen felt and it made Annie understand Helen more.

Then she ran to the whole world, she talked about Annie’s love, she helped people that who were unlucky had problem even she was like that.
She started writing books and speaking. She became a really successful woman. She was a blind, deaf writer and a disability educator. She is learned. And she knew 5 different languages, including English; French; German; Latin; Greece. And she was even these languages’ writer.

In October 1961 Helen suffered the first of a series of strokes, and her public life was to draw to a close. She was to spend her remaining years being cared for at her home in Arcan Ridge. Her last years were not however without excitement, and in 1964 Helen was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, by President Lyndon Johnson. A year later she was elected to the Women’s Hall of Fame at the New York World’s Fair

She became famous and traveled around the world speaking to groups of people. She met many important and well-known people as she traveled

She died in 1968. She was 89 years old. She died peacefully in her sleep. She gave all her energy to the world. She slave the disabled people to the world. Annie gave Helen her Precious love, and then Helen spread her love to everyone. After she died, because of her strong will and Outstanding contributions moved the world, people from everywhere had activities to memorial her.

To her. She thought everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and she learn whatever state she is in , therein to be content. She said she did not want the peace which passeth understanding, she wanted to understanding which bringeth peace.

I always think God is not fair sometime, because he should not let her blind and deaf. She is that success, she is that smart. But every time when I think until here, I realize that God is fair. He gave her wisdom but not eyes and ears. God wants her to feel him by heart. And Helen did it. She felt every single thing by heart. That is why she can know everything well.

In her own words:”The public must learn that the blind man is neither genius nor a freak nor an idiot. He has a mind that can be educated, a hand which can be trained, and ambitions which it is right for him to strive to realize, and it is the duty of the public to help him make the best of himself so that he can win light through work.”