Helen Keller Benefits

After reading Helen Keller. The Story of My Life, and watching the movie, The Miracle Worker, write an essay that explains how challenges are beneficial. Use evidence from the story and from the movie to support your answer.

A man himself was not defined since he was born, but in the way he faced and dealt with his challenges. Someone once stated, “We don’t grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges.” The accuracy of this quote was proved by the novel “The Story of My Life,” which was written by Helen Keller, and the movie “The Miracle Worker,” which had Helen Keller as its protagonist. Helen Keller was an extraordinary woman. At the age of eighteen months, Helen Keller got a serious fever which consequently, she lost her

As mentioned above, deafness and blindness used to be two big obstacles in Keller’s life. Keller used to live in darkness and desperation as she couldn’t contact with the world normally like others people would do. However, by great effort, Keller overcame her challenge of communicating, thus “force” people to acknowledge to the abilities of a such deaf-blind person like her. Sullivan, a wonderful teacher who was also Keller’s teacher, helped Keller a lot with her communication.Thanked to Sullivan's extraordinary instructions as well as her patience and competence, after few years, Keller not only could read and write in Braille, but she also knew how use the sign language fluently. Knowed how to communicate helped Keller to gain her confidence, for she finally could express her thought to the world. Additionally, Keller conquered the challenge that seemed unable to vanquish, that would give Keller more courage to cope with her future challenges. Keller was saved from “ darkness” and “ hopelessness.” However, Keller not only found the way to get out of darkness for herself, but also she found the way out to thoses who had same obstacles like

Keller’s abilities had attracted a great attention from many people around the world. However, the most important reason that contributed to Keller’s international reputation was at all the works she had done for the society. Before anyone had ever heard of Helen Keller, people that were blind, deaf or handicapped were treated very harshly. They were sometimes an embarrassment to their families, and were often sent off to be cared for away from the rest of the family. No one ever cared if they could learn and be productive people. However, thanked to the example of Helen Keller and her victory over deafness and blindness, everyone realized that everyone has something positive to contribute to the world around them—if they are given the chance. In addition, Through Keller’s fundraising efforts for deaf and blind people, AFB continues to assist blind people in the areas of technology, education, independent living, literacy, and employment, which was a big advancement for those who misfortuned. Overall, if Keller had hadn’t challenge, she would haven’t well known, and therefore deaf and blind people would haven’t had chances to improve their