Helen Keller Story (The story of my life )

 Helen Adams Keeler (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American writer, disabled rights advocate, political activist, and lecturer.  Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and hearing at the age of nineteen after suffering a bout of illness.  Then she mainly used house signs until she was 7 years old when she met her first teacher and partner, Anne Sullivan, who taught her her language, including reading and writing;  Sullivan's first lesson involved spelling out words on Keller's hand to show the names of things around him.  Also learn how to speak and understand other people's words with the tedoma method.  After receiving education in both specialist and mainstream schools, she attended Radcliffe College at Harvard and became the first deaf person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.  He worked for the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) from 1924 to 1968, visiting the United States and traveling to 39 countries around the world advocating for people with visual impairments.

Keeler was a prolific author, writing 14 books and hundreds of speeches and articles on topics ranging from animals to Mahatma Gandhi.  . In 1933, when young Nazis burned her book How to Become a Socialist, she wrote an open letter to the student body in Germany condemning censorship and prejudice. The story of Keller and Sullivan is best known through Keller's 1903 autobiography, The Story of My Life, and her adaptations of the film and stage, The Miracle Worker.  Her hometown is now a museum  and she sponsors the annual Helen Keeler Day.  

Early childhood and illness:-                    

Helen Keller birthday in Tuscumbia

Alabama

                                                        

                        Keller with Anne Sullivan vacationing                      

                        On Cape in July 1888

                                                     

Helen Adams Keylor was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama.  Her family lived in a house, Ivy Green, [2], built decades earlier by Helen's grandfather.  She had four siblings: two full brothers, Mildred Campbell (Keylor) Tyson and Phillip Brooks Keylor, and two older stepbrothers from her father's previous marriage, James Macdonald Keillor and Williamson Keillor. 

Her father, Arthur Henley Keylor (1836–1896), [8] spent several years as editor of the newspaper of Tuscumbia North Alabama and served as a captain in the Confederate army.  The family was part of the slave practice before the war, but later lost its status.  His mother, Catherine Everett (Adams) Keylor (2158–1421), better known as "Kate", [4] was the daughter of Charles W. Adams, a Confederate general.  Her father's descent is passed back to Swiss citizen Caspar Keeler. Keillor reflected this contradiction in his first biography: "There is no king who was not a slave among his predecessors, nor a slave who did not have a king."  At the age of 19 months, Keeler developed an unknown disease reported by doctors as "acute congestion of the stomach and brain", which may be meningitis leading to the bacterium Neisseria  meningitides  (meningococcal), or possibly hemophilic.  Is caused by influenza (which may occur).  Cause the same symptoms).  However, it is less likely to cause juvenile mortality of 97% at the time.) Other possible infections include rubella (which usually causes blindness or deafness in prenatal infections) or scarlet fever (which usually does not cause blindness.  Happens) are included.  Deafness).  The disease made him deaf and blind.  She lived, as she recalls in her autobiography, "in a sea of ​​dense fog."  [15th]At the time, Keylor was somewhat related to Martha Washington, the 2-year-old daughter of the family cook, signs of which he understood;  [16]: 11 By the age of seven, Keylor had more than 40 house signs to communicate with her family, and she could isolate people from the vibrations of her footsteps.

In 1886, Keller's mother, inspired by a narrative in Charles Dickens's American Notes of the Successful Education of Laura Deleman,  another deaf and blind woman, was dr.  Julian sent the young Keylor along with his father to search for Chesolam  Bell advised him to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the school where Bridgman was educated, and which was then located in South Boston.  Michael Agnus, principal, has asked 20-year-old school graduate Anne Sullivan, who has poor eyesight, to become Keylor's teacher.  This was the beginning of a relationship that lasted nearly 50 years during which Sullivan Keller developed as a nanny and . Helen by writing the spelling of the words in her hands, which she had given as a gift to Keller.  Keylor was disappointed at first, because he did not understand that every object contained a word that uniquely identified it.  When Sullivan was trying to teach Keeler the word "mug", Keeler became so frustrated that he broke the mug.  Soon, however, he began mimicking Sullivan's hand gestures.  "I didn't know if I was spelling a word or even that the words were there," Keller recalled.  "I was just moving my fingers in mimicry like a monkey."

Keylor's success in communication came the following month when he felt his teacher walking on his palm while he was passing cold water with his other hand, symbolizing the idea of ​​"water".  In his autobiography, My Life Story, Keylor recalled the moment: "I stood still, focusing all my attention on the antics of my fingers.  Suddenly, I felt a blurred consciousness as if something had been forgotten - instigating the return of thought;  And somehow the mystery of language came to me.  Wonderful that was flowing on my hand.  The Living Word awakened my soul, lighted it, and hoped, and set it free!  Then Keylor almost finished Sullivan, asking him to name all the other familiar things in his world.Helen Keeler was seen as isolated, but very much in touch with the outside world.  He was able to enjoy the music by feeling the rhythm and was able to form a strong bond with the animals through touch.  He was late to learn the language, but that did not stop him from giving a voice. 

Formal education:-

In May 1888, Keeler began attending the Perkins Institute for the Blind.  In 1894, Keller and Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf.  In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts, and Keller entered Cambridge School for Young Women before gaining admission, in 1900, to Harvard's Radcliffe College, [22] where she lived in Briggs Hole, South House.  Her fan, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil mogul Henry Hutlston Rogers, who, along with his wife Abby, paid for her education.  She preserved correspondence with the Austrian philosopher and teacher Wilhelm Jerusalem, who was among the first to discover her literary talent.  Keeler learned to speak and spent most of her life giving speeches and lectures on aspects of her life.  I learned to "hear" what people said by using the "Tadoma" method, that is, using her fingers to feel my lips and stethoscope.  She became adept at using braille and using spelling to communicate.  

companions:-

  

                Helen Keller in 1899 with lifelong companion 

                and teachers Anne Sullivan. photo taken by 

                Alexander graham bell at his school of vocal

                physiology and mechanics of speech 

                                                     

 

Anne Sullivan remained Helen Keeler's companion long after I taught her.  Sullivan married John Macy in 1905, and her health began to decline around 1914. Polly Thompson (February 20, 1885-March 21, 1960) was hired to manage the household.  She was a young woman from Scotland who had no experience of being deaf or blind.  She applied to work as a secretary as well, eventually becoming Keller's constant companion. Keeler moved to Forest Hills, Queens, along with Sullivan and Macy, and used the house as a base for her efforts on behalf of the American Foundation of the Blind. It was a successful socialist, ”Peter Fagan, a young reporter from the Boston Herald who was sent to Helen's home to work as a private secretary  Her when her life partner, Anne, fell ill.  Keeler moved with her mother in Montgomery, Alabama.Anne Sullivan died in 1936, with Keeler holding her hand, after she fell into a coma as a result of a blood clot in a coronary artery.  Keeler and Thompson moved to Connecticut.  They traveled all over the world and raised money for the blind.  Thompson had a stroke in 1957 from which she never fully recovered, and she died in 1960.

Political activities:-

                Helen Keller portrait, 1904. Due to a protruding

                left eye, Keller was usually photographed in

                profile

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"Anne Sullivan - Helen Keller Memorial" -a bronze

 Sculpture in Tewksbury, Massachusetts

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Keeler went on to become a world-famous speaker and author.  She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, among many other reasons.  The deaf community has been affected by it on a large scale.  She has traveled to twenty-five different countries to give motivational speeches about the situation of the deaf.  [37] She was a supporter of women's suffrage, an advocate of peace, a radical socialist, supportive of birth control, and opposition to Woodrow Wilson.  In 1915, she and George A.  Kessler Helen Keeler International (HKI).  This organization is dedicated to research into vision, health and nutrition.  In 1916, money sent to the NAACP shy of the South's non-Christian treatment of "colored people".  Keeler has traveled with Sullivan to more than 40 countries, made several trips to Japan and became a favorite of the Japanese people.  Keeler has met every president of the United States from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon Johnson and has been friends with many famous personalities, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin, and Mark Twain.  Both Keeler and Twain were considered political radicals allied to the politics of the left.

 A member of the Socialist Party, Keeler campaigned actively and wrote in support of the working class from 1909 to 1921. Many of her speeches and writings were about women's suffrage and the effects of war.  In addition, it supported issues opposing military intervention.  She underwent speech therapy in order for the public to better hear her voice.  She supported Socialist Party candidate Eugene F.  Benned in every election campaign for the presidency.  Before reading progress and poverty, Helen Keeler was already a socialist who believed Georgian was a good step in the right direction.  She later wrote of "finding in Henry George's philosophy a rare beauty, the power of inspiration, and a wonderful belief in the fundamental nobility of human nature."Keeler has claimed that newspaper columnists who praised her courage and intelligence before she expressed her socialist views now draw attention to her disabilities.  The Brooklyn Eagle editor wrote that her "mistakes arose from the apparent limitations of her development".  Keeler responded to that editor, indicating that he had met him before he learned of her political views

Later lif:-

 Keeler suffer the National Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair. Keeler devoted much of her post life to raising money for the American Foundation of the Blind.  A prayer was held for her in honor of her at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, her body was cremated and her ashes remained there along with her lifelong companions, Anne Sullivan and Polly Thompson.  She was buried in the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.