Helen Keller's The Story Of My Life

On June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama an inspirational figure was born. Her name was Helen Keller. Helen was born as a normal and healthy baby with perfect hearing and sight. She had developed fine and started to speak when only at the young age of six months old, and starting walking at the age of one. In 1882 Keller got a disease known as “brain fever” by the family doctor that made her have a severe high temperature and fever. One night when the dinner bell was rang Helen didn’t come downstairs, and she did not react to a waving hand in her face. Keller had lost both sight and hearing at only 19 months old. At the age of six Helen had met Anne Sullivan, which would become her tutor. Anne taught Keller the alphabet and opened up a new world

She also Received honorary doctoral degrees from Temple University and Harvard and from the Universities of Glasgow, Scotland; Berlin, Germany; Delhi, India; and Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Additionally she was named an Honorary Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland. She became famous for her autobiography called “ The Story of My Life” which was written in 1902. Her books she had wrote include The World I Live In written in 1908, Out of the Dark written in 1913, and 1938’s Helen Keller’s Journal was written. She became an author, and an educator. In later life Keller also became an activist and lecturer, sometimes in support of the blind and deaf, and sometimes for causes including Socialism and women's rights. She also founded and promoted the American Foundation for the Blind. She was known for being handicapped and being an inspirational figure and was also known as the blind and deaf woman who became a famous activist. She made a difference because she had shown the world that even being blind or deaf nothing can stop you if you're