HELEN KELLER By : Tushar Class :X ‘A’Roll No. :37

Helen Keller

• The name of Helen Keller is known world wide as a symbol of courage.• Helen was an intelligent and ambitious

person.• She also devoted her life to helping others.

Birthplace

• Known as Ivy Green• Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama • on June 27, 1880

Helen’s Illness

• When Helen was 19 months old she suffered from a disease “an acute congestion of the stomach and brain” and it left her deaf and blind.

• Her parents contacted the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston.

• Perkins Provided Keller with a teacher. Her name was Anne Sullivan.

Helen and Anne

• Anne worked out an alphabet that she spelled out words in her hand.

• With Anne teaching Helen, She was able to pass the admissions exam for Radcliffe College at the age of 16.

•  Anne began her task with a doll that a child made at Perkins for Helen.

• By spell “d-o-l-l” into Helen’s hand she hoped she would learn to connect the letters with the object.

• Helen quickly learned how to form all the letter correctly with her hands and in the correct order.

• Helen had written a little story called The Frost King which she had sent to Mr. Anagnos of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. The latter was delighted with it and published the story in one of the institutional reports. However, it was discovered that a story similar to her The Frost King called The Frost Fairies by Miss. Margaret T. Canby had appeared before Helen was born in a book called Birdie and His Friends. The two stories were so much alike in thought and language that it was evident Miss Canby story had been read to Helen and that her story was a case of plagiarism. A court of investigation was constituted which consisted of eight people, four blind, four people with vision and votes were cast to arrive at a decision. Mr. Anagnos who had supported Helen initially, changed tack and cast his vote against her. The incident scarred Helen in such a way that for a very long time she could not produce any creative work after this episode. She became excessively scrupulous about everything she wrote and the thought tormented her that what she wrote was not her original work. Miss Sullivan had to console her and allay her fears to in every which way possible in order to restore the confidence that Helen had lost. Eventually, Helen resumed her writing, urged on by her teacher.

The Frost King

Helen visited the world's fair in 1893 with Ms. Anne Sullivan and Dr. Graham Bell. She witnessed entire world under her fingertips. She visited India, Egypt, Venice and Africa at the fair. She shares her joy of examining a ship which was modeled after Columbus' ship. At the exhibit of Cape of good hope she witnessed the process of diamond cutting and washing. She encapsulates her journey of beholding the sights of Shivas , Ganeshas and the majestic Pyramids as event taken from "Arabian Nights"

Visit To World Fair

In the autumn of the year 1896, Helen "entered the Cambridge School for Young Ladies, to be prepared for Radcliffe [College]."  She quickly discovered that school was quite an adjustment.  The teachers there were not used to teaching blind or deaf students.  Helen needed many accommodations to complete her coursework.  Her teacher, Annie Sullivan, assisted Helen by fingerspelling the lectures and readings into her hand.  The only other way that Helen could communicate with her instructors was to press her fingers against their mouths as they spoke.Helen studied many subjects at school.  These subjects ranged from literature to history.  There was a great amount of work required for her classes.  Helen was assigned large sections of reading.  It was too much for Ms. Sullivan to spell into Helen's hand, and there were not many books with raised print at that time.

Cambridge School for Young Ladies

• Miss Sullivan taught Helen how to communicate and learn.

•  Helen was able to go to school.  She attended school beginning in 1894.  

• Helen studied mathematics, literature, history, and many other subjects.

• She learned to write using a special typewriter. •  Helen also made attempts to learn how to speak.  Helen

even went to college.

Helen’s Education

Graduation • When Helen graduated from Radcliffe College in

1904 she had mastered 5 different languages. • On Helen’s 50th anniversary of graduating from

Radcliffe College, She was awarded the Alumnac Achievement Award.

• They also showed pride in her by dedicating the Helen Keller Garden in her Honor.

The Miracle Worker

• Helen Keller’s childhood education became a film called The Miracle Worker.

• First it as a play by William Gibson and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960

• The film won an Oscar in 1962.

The Story of My Life

• While at college Helen had wrote the 1st volume of her autobiography.

• Her autobiography was published in the Ladies’ Home Journal.

• In 1902 it became a book.