The hardship of Helen Keller
Elsa Morales
Life of Helen Keller
Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When she was first born she was a healthy baby. But at 18 months old she got a mysterious illness that took away her hearing and sight. When she was younger she was very prone to outburst because she was mad no one could understand her.But even when she couldn't see or hear that didn't stop her from learning to talk she once said "One who is entirely dependent on the manual alphabet has always a sense of restraint, of narrowness." Later on she wrote she wrote book on her life and the hardships she had to do,a quote from her book was “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
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Fun facts
- At age 10, she expresses a desire to learn to speak
- Went to collage and received a Bachelor of Arts degree
- She connected with her teacher Ana Sullivan because was blind to
- Wrote a book "story of my life"
Helen Keller reading
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