Book Report

I have read a book about Helen Keller. I got interested in Helen Keller and how she managed to survive without sight and hearing.

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The Story of my Life

  Helen Keller is a perfect example of someone who never gives up. She was born totally normal and this makes her harder to be happy. She was a fast learner and had learnt all the alphabets and speaking when she was barely going to school. But just because she had got ill, she lost her memories about her knowledge and was blind and deaf. No normal people can stand this depression. Learning something with this condition is very hard and almost impossible. But Helen Keller explains beautifully how she managed to learn something.

 Helen Keller was born on June 27^th, 1880, in Tuscumbia, a little town of northern Alabama. She was perfectly normal and had a happy family to live with. She was a fast learner and managed to speak clearly when she was a toddler. This helps her after when she gets ill and finally ends up as blind and a deaf girl. She manages to remember some words like ‘water’ and how to pronounce it. In this case I can see that Helen Keller is a very trying person. She didn’t give all her hope and fell. She was happy because she managed to recall her old memories, which actually helped her with her pronunciations later.

 When Helen Keller became deaf and blind, her parents were desperate to find a special teacher to kindly teach her. They searched almost everywhere just to find the teacher and they finally found one who changed Keller’s entire life. The teacher was Anne Sullivan. She always made sure that Helen Keller understood everything clearly without confusion. She tried to approach to Helen Keller in a friend kind of way to get her attention. They slowly learnt English, science, geography, history and math. Almost every subject was very friendly approached to Helen Keller. She never thought that she was learning something. She always thought that she was playing a game with miss Sullivan. The only subject Keller didn’t like was Math. The interesting part is that in the book, she never feels shy or embarrassed about what she is saying. She always told the very truth and felt proud about it. She said Math was really boring and unattractive. Well, it could be true but not much people can say that allowed without blushing. There is always something different about Helen Keller, which shines her brightly. It doesn’t mean that she is blind and deaf which separates her. It is how she thinks about everything that makes her more special than others.

 When she goes to college, she had a lot of problems and difficulties that held her back from studying. But she was stubborn enough to get on going, doing whatever she can. I observed a lot of impossible things when I was reading her biography. But I also observed that she took it positively and made it possible. The way how Helen Keller explains every details are so emotional. Every sentence Helen Keller tells me how hard she was when she was studying with no eyes and ears to support her. The interesting point here is, she never said ‘negative’ words that makes the reader feel bad about her. Helen Keller just narrates everything as if everything is all right and good, but the reader doesn’t feel the same when reading the same words. They feel really bad for her and want to encourage her. This was the most interesting part when I was reading the biography of Helen Keller.

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I just wrote a plain book report but it helped me analyze what I have read. I will be writing more book reports.