Helen Keller Biography: The Story of My Life | Inspirational story

Helen Keller Biography: The Story of My Life | Inspirational story: Today we're going to touch a very sensitive and interesting topic of Helen Keller biography.

That was written in early 20th century
Published in 1903

There's a Bollywood movie also made about the Helen Keller biography that is 'Black' by the Bollywood actors Amitabh bachchan and Rani Mukherjee.

·        Name: Helen Adams Keller

·        Born on: June 27, 1880

·        Birth Place: Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States

·        Died on: June 1, 1968 (at 87)

·        Death Place: Easton, Connecticut, United States

·        Occupation Lecturer, Author and a political activist

·        Works: The Story of My Life

Who was Helen Keller?

Helen Keller was an author, Political activist and a lecturer. 

She was the first person who got the Degree of BA from the Howard University even after being blind and Deaf😔

and during her study of BA, She had written "The Story of my life".

She was born on 27th June, 1880 in the American Village North Alabama.

Helen Keller Biography

Her starting journey of life was Normal as like other children. 

She lived in a house made in a Huge Land but When Helen Keller becomes 2 Years old, she becomes highly sick. 

Her parents and Doctors thought that Helen will not remain alive.

But Helen Overcome that fever but the Fever gone by making the life of Helen Keller like an animal means due to that fever, Helen become blind and Deaf.

After some months when Fever vanished permanently, she grabbed her mother.

Now think that, if a Small girl wants something like food, water, toys etc. 

Then how she will express? And if her mother wants to ask something then how will she asks?

Then Helen Keller and her mother made some Hand sign gestures through which they can communicate. 

Now after that huge loss of life she was able to understand what was going on her surroundings.

She starts to understand things and start doing small chores. She was not like Sit like an animal. 

She plays with her Dog, played with the daughter of Bawarchi, Sometimes does naughty things like any other child.

Once she pushed her sister - Mildred. But no worry, Parents doesn't scolded her. As she was their own child.

As Helen Keller was growing, her desire to do something in life was increasing but she never learnt any language. 

Now she got angry and frustrated that how should she do something?

The place the Helen Keller was living was too far from blind school so no teacher wanted to come to her home. 

Therefore their parents always get feared that their daughter was no remain like this forever.

So they went to Baltimore to find doctor of eyes, there Doctor recommend them to meet Dr. Alexander Graham bell.

Do you Know friends who was Dr. Alexander Graham bell?

Alexander Graham bell was the inventor of Telephone! 

Yeahhh😂, I mean wow😄. Alexander Graham bell works on Blind and Deaf children.

So When Helen Keller family meet Dr. Alexander Graham bell then he suggested them to write a letter to Mr. Anagrams who runs a blind school in Boston, So Helen family wrote a letter to Mr. Anagrams

After some weeks they got a letter from Mr. Anagrams that there’s a teacher for your daughter and he will come on March.

A lady Teacher arrive named Mrs. Anne Sullivan. Here a turning point of the life of Helen Keller came. 

Helen and Mrs. Anne Sullivan get connected to each other sooner.

That Helen Keller biography Book Summary of "The story of my life" you're reading right now, Helen dedicated this book to Mrs. Anne Sullivan because Anne Sullivan was like an angel for Helen Keller.

The Challenge for Anne Sullivan was that How can she teach alphabets to Helen Keller because she neither able to see nor hear, then how should she can communicate with her.

She Makes alphabets on the hands of Helen Keller through her finger, after a time Helen started to understand that. 

As she also have the desire to learn so she becomes too excited about her life for the first time.

But everything was not understandable by alphabets, It means when she eats apples then she knows the taste of apple, but she need to feel it. 

That means she knows that she eaten something tasty but how should she knows that it is called Apple?

For the solution of that Problem, Anne Sullivan given Helen an apple and wrote the alphabets on the hand of Helen. 

After that she teaches her everything like she is your mother, it is flower, it is Tree 🌲. Everything she can make her feel she does.

Anne Sullivan also teaches Helen Keller that how much nature is lovely, it is dangerous also.

Now Helen Keller got a proper Language to communicate with others, before she talked to her mother in an improper way but now she got a proper language.

There is an instrument called Brill through which blind people learns to study, Helen Keller also learning to study from it.

As before she used to eat whatever she get and sit wherever she want but now Helen can express what she wants by sign language and Helen Keller given the credit of that to her teacher Mrs. Anne Sullivan.

May 1888

Before she used to study at home but now Helen Keller started her study by going to institute. 

Helen was too happy by sitting with the people who are like her.

She Goes to Beach while summer and here she get in love with Water.

After a season, Helen Keller and Mrs. Anne Sullivan came back to home where they live on a country house. 

They used to climb the mountain, her little brother Mildred was also living with her.

During the spring season of 1890, Helen heard about a girl from Norway who learnt to speak. 

Helen thinks that if she wants to express her thoughts to the world then she need to learn to Speak. 

So she decided to go to New York and Learn to speak.

As she was learning to speak, she becomes too happy, she thinks that when she goes back to her home then she will talk to her family like a normal person.

At 1892

A problem happens with her. 

Helen Keller wrote a Story, Her teachers wanted to publish it but later it found that the story was some similar from already written story.

Helen felt very embarrassed, She listen it from her teacher Mrs. Anne Sullivan at childhood and she wrote that and Helen really don't know that it was illegal.

Helen was called that she copied the story and wanted to publish it with sympathy. 

At the end, people finds that Helen was innocent but this incident changed Helen Keller that he learnt to not copy anything.

In 1893

Helen Keller went to the party of President Klee land with Alexander Graham bell. 

At that time she was very happy because she Learn many Languages especially, German and Latin.

But again she got a heartbreaking news that his father died.....

October 1896

Helen has decided to go to Howard University to take Admission.  

For that she went to a Cambridge school but there, teachers didn't know How to teach Blind or deaf students so she is again totally dependent on Mrs. Anne Sullivan.

She had many works to do including homework and that is really a tough task for Blind and Deaf student but by hard work she passed that school. 

She made many friends there and her sister Mildred also taken admission on the same school that is a great thing for Helen Keller.

Helen Keller was very determined to success. She fought with every situations.

The demerit of Helen was Mrs. Anne Sullivan, Helen doesn't able to understand Many things in absence of Mrs. Anne Sullivan. 

The problem occurs when her principal said that Helen couldn't sit with Mrs. Anne Sullivan during final examinations. 

Therefore the mother of Helen Keller get her both daughters out of the school and teacher them with personal tutor.

1889, for going to Howard University, she had to give Final exams but authorities declined to sit Mrs. Anne Sullivan to sit with Helen Keller.

At that time, Helen got many problems to understand Questions but at that situation, She Faced Mathematics and Passed the Exams and even taken Admission in Howard University.

The dream she saw for a long time was finally going to complete that is going to Howard University. 

But when she took admission then she feels that the things were not like that she thought.

At the third year of her College, She started writing the Helen Keller biography "The story of my life" that you're reading right now.

Helen was too interested in studies and very curious about human history. 

On her book of Helen Keller biography "The story of my life", she wrote a full chapter about Book. 

She wrote she was Debtor of Books.

Helen says that "When I read books, I never feel disabled, I'm able to do anything". 

She says that the Famous writers like Shakespeare teaches her. Apart from that the nature she enjoys by Walking, rafting etc. Are also a great experience. 

She said "Seeing the world from the eyes of others is very good experience for me"

At the end of the story, Helen Keller thanked her friends and family members who made her life that much interesting otherwise no idea how she had to live.

Now Friend, I'm talking to you. 

Whenever you feel to cry or to be Sad or to be upset. 

Think about the people who doesn't have anything to cry about, from whom they complaint that they're not like Normal People.

Conclusion

At the End in the Helen Keller biography, we saw that Helen was very dedicated person who lived like a Tiger even after many difficulties.

Now think once that what is stopping you. 

Is there anything worse than being disabled? 

You have everything, the world is inside you so Stop Complaining and Work harder and harder to achieve your Goal. That the Motive Of Enrich Success.

Speak a Loud "I CAN!!!!!!!!!"

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