Helen Keller wrote a auto biography about when she was getting taught by Anne Mansfield Sullivan. All of the information was tooken from a excerpt of the auto biography "The Story of My Life" about the moment when Helen was gettina taught by her teacher Anne Sullivan. All the quotes are from the memoir "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller.
She was sitting on the porch chair, just waiting for something "special" to happen. The dense fog clouded around her, like a ship, but she wanted the lighthouse to shine that light bright. Then someone took her hand, someone that would reveal all things, and give the most important thing. Love.
Her teacher, Anne Sullivan, gave Helen a doll from the Perkins Institution and Laura Bridgman had dressed it. Then, Anne slowly spelled out the word, "d-o-l-l." Uncomprehending, Helen simply made "monkey like imitations" as Helen says. After that, Anne told Helen that doll can be more than 2 things, such as the rag doll in her lap. She also tried to teach that "w-a-t-e-r" and "m-u-g" was water and mug, but being very persistent, Helen became annoyed and broke her doll by throwing it on the ground with satisfaction, removing her discomfort. Anne then took her outside for a walk.
They walked down to the well house, which had a fragrance of the honeysuckles. Then Anne put in Helen's hand in the spout, and said water slowly and rapidly. Suddenly, Helen revealed the mystery of language, and the cool something going across her hand, was water. Helen found out everything had a name, and she remembered about the doll. So Helen cleaned it up and tried to put it back together, but she couldn't, "feeling repentance and sorrow."
Helen learned many words that day like mother, father, sister, teacher, and more. She learned some phrases too, like "Like Aaron's rod, with flowers." This gave her the joy, to be happy, more than she ever was. And for the first time, Helen Keller, "longed for a new day to come."
She was sitting on the porch chair, just waiting for something "special" to happen. The dense fog clouded around her, like a ship, but she wanted the lighthouse to shine that light bright. Then someone took her hand, someone that would reveal all things, and give the most important thing. Love.
Her teacher, Anne Sullivan, gave Helen a doll from the Perkins Institution and Laura Bridgman had dressed it. Then, Anne slowly spelled out the word, "d-o-l-l." Uncomprehending, Helen simply made "monkey like imitations" as Helen says. After that, Anne told Helen that doll can be more than 2 things, such as the rag doll in her lap. She also tried to teach that "w-a-t-e-r" and "m-u-g" was water and mug, but being very persistent, Helen became annoyed and broke her doll by throwing it on the ground with satisfaction, removing her discomfort. Anne then took her outside for a walk.
They walked down to the well house, which had a fragrance of the honeysuckles. Then Anne put in Helen's hand in the spout, and said water slowly and rapidly. Suddenly, Helen revealed the mystery of language, and the cool something going across her hand, was water. Helen found out everything had a name, and she remembered about the doll. So Helen cleaned it up and tried to put it back together, but she couldn't, "feeling repentance and sorrow."
Helen learned many words that day like mother, father, sister, teacher, and more. She learned some phrases too, like "Like Aaron's rod, with flowers." This gave her the joy, to be happy, more than she ever was. And for the first time, Helen Keller, "longed for a new day to come."