What Were Helen Keller's Accomplishments

Close your eyes and try doing something as simple as walking to your bathroom and try brushing your teeth. If you're about to hit something or get worried you could always just open your eyes. However if you were Helen Keller, you can’t just open your eyes. At a very young age of just 19 months, she got a very high fever. It went away, however it left her blind and deaf. The next six years she was very uncivilized and acted very animal like. Never taught how to act properly, she went on anger tantrums and was spoiled. However with the help of many people she got over her hardships. Helen Keller had many accomplishments and achievements during her lifetime. One of the many achievements she had was learning Braille and how to read in write in English, Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian. She did this with the help of her teacher Annie Sullivan. Annie was once blind like Helen and understood the difficulties. She started with holding out a letter and having Helen feel her hand to remake the letter she did. Annie would spell out words to her and finally understood that objects had meanings and words when she spelt out water into Helen’s hands at a water pump. Even after learning english letters and words she learned other languages. Many people only know one language and sometimes two languages but she learned more than six. She also

Some people can’t even go to college because they’re not smart enough and a blind and deaf woman wanted to. On top of wanting to go to college as deaf and blind, she wanted to goto one of the highest colleges in America, Radcliffe. Helen tried to compare herself to people that could hear and see. Helen got into Radcliffe, and Annie Sullivan gave Helen the lectures through her fingers. She ended up graduating with honors in the year 1904. Being able to goto college being blind and deaf and graduating with honors is a remarkable accomplishment (“The Great Women”, Joan