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The book talks about the author life and her education. The author approved that blind and deaf people can do the same as others maybe more. Helen Keller became deaf and blind when she was nineteenth month because of the fever that she had. I like this book because there is a theory that says nothing impossible to learn. I like how she struggled with learning and how other people around her influence her positively. She is really a successful woman who makes other people proud of what she has done and also not to give up easily.
She has ason with seven disabilities and feels that if Helen Keller could over come what she did he can over come and become something. I ordered this for a friend of mine for her birthday which is not here yet. She will be pleased to receive this as a gift because she is all taken up with the Helen Keller Story. She has wanted this and could not find it and she doesn't know that I have it for her. Thank you for the prompt service and the great condition of the book.
I assure you, the experience for the kids can be very enlightening and surprising. I am a little bit unsure as I am reading each chapter if she wrote it at that period of time, or did she write the story at the end of her college studies. Now, for the book The Story of My Life, the autobiography is as brilliant as it is an uplifting experience of having overcome the odds. One thing I notice about her writing is that it remains very positive throughout the book.
Surely, have you thought about teaching the ABC's of American Sign Language to the hearing kids. It is quite amazing that she went to an accredited college and earned a degree while possessing a knowledge of six languages (fingerspelling counts as one as it is part of American Sign Language). Have they met a deaf person before. I read some of the negative comments written by the reviewers, and I do agree with some of them in a certain extent, but one of them is so odd that I am compelled to address the issue. She seems to be eternally grateful of being alive and granted with the fruits of life, and her accomplishments certainly reflect the fact. When she talks about her achievements, there is a great deal of pride in herself because she knows how hard it was to do it.
It's so tough to think how I could succeed in this kind of life, but Helen Keller really did it and with high expectations. I suggest the publishers of Signet Classic to discard Jim Knipfel's piece and replace it with an introduction that is of high quality and professional tone that meets Helen Keller's standards. Have they learned about their culture. Never in my life have I read an introductionary presentation of a person as famous as Helen Keller that was so condescending, sneering, and downright rude. One said, in her title, "Great story.hard to teach." Quite frankly, I find that comment narrow-minded.
At times, she commits the crime of supplying purple prose which went off the topic too much. They seem to have this certain assumption that I can't do a lot of things just because I can't hear. After finishing The Story of My Life, there is a collection of Helen Keller's letters. First of all, I would like to take a short notice of the introduction by Jim Knipfel. Have they met a blind person. Or how about a deaf-blind person before. Have you taught them the characteristics of their lives and how they overcome adversities like watching television, talking on the phone, attending classes, etc.
Have you taken the kids to a school for the deaf and blind. It sounds hard to believe for most of you, but the fact is, this problem is incredibly prevalent. I know what is it like to be deaf myself, but I can't imagine being blind too. That's why The Story of My Life is a great and useful experience of exposing the young readers the kind of a world that deaf and/or blind people that live in and how they manage to live their lives. I say this because I notice how her tone and attitude have dramatically changed. I admit, I found all of them boring and couldn't read much of them except notice the improvements in relatively a short time, especially for somebody that is so precociousness as Helen Keller. One of the lifelong frustrations of my life being a deaf person as I am is the lack of acceptance by the hearing people.
All in all, The Story of My Life presents a miracle of a woman who overcame all odds to be the best person possible as she can be, and it's shocking for me to see her to do it so considering the time period she lived in given the history of education among students with disabilities.
Younger children would benefit hearing it read aloud and discussed. As a fellow human, I experience it in a totally different way.
There are also letters written by Helen Keller throughout various stages in her life.My 12-year-old was assigned the autobiographical portion only, but found it so interesting that she continued to read all of Annie Sullivan's letters to the Perkins Institute. For my daughter to dig deeper, on her own, was a remarkable thing.
This book contains the autobiography of Helen Keller, written while she was a college student, as well as the letters of Annie Sullivan, her extraordinary teacher, and the notes of John Macy, an assistant. As a mother, I see it another way.
I was really pleased to find her so engrossed with the story of Helen Keller.It's fascinating to read about her life from the three different points of view (Keller's, Sullivan's, and Macy's). As a teacher, I view her progress one way.
I found myself sitting for long periods, imagining what it must be like to have been Helen as a child, as a student, as a traveler.I heartily recommend this book to anyone over the age of about 12. It's a classic that should not be missed.
Harold Bloom. These people should at least read a story about the way human language emerged and evolved to writing and reading. I'm astonished by the one star comments. Prof. Maybe "How Writing Came About" by Denise Schmandt-Besserat and perhaps they would start understanding the unimaginable effort done by Helen and the uniqueness of her testimony, as so well expounded by Konrad Lorentz. Some time ago I had the great opportunity to exchange some emails about this subject with prof. Bloom, who knows very well the story of Helen, suggest that we have not only an internal ear but even an internal eye that allowed Helen to deeply understand the classics she read: her comments are short but so deep. One last remark, a recent book " Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain" by Maryanne Wolf could be very useful to better understand the key role of Helen Keller (and Anne Sullivan).
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