Helen Keller

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To become a hero it is not always necessary to be strong or firm. All people can become a hero for themselves or for other people because everyone’s criteria is different. And according to me, a hero is a person who can be successful by his own effort and the result is useful for many people and doesn’t use his shortcomings as a meaningful obstacle. Like Helen Keller.

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was a cute and healthy child until she become two years old. She was attacked by a serious illness that caused her to become blind, deaf, and mute. At her age of seven, she could not be taught and become wild until her parents met Johanna (Anne) Mansfeld Sullivan Macy and asked her to become a private teacher and Helen’s mentor.

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Miss Sullivan taught and always accompanied her so that Helen became a successful person. Maybe, Miss Sullivan was a hero for Helen. Because of her strong determination, Helen could pass from Radcliffe College (a branch of the Harvard University) with the predicate magna cum laude only within four years. Helen was the first deaf and mute person in the world who passed the university. Beside that, Helen also tried to speak until she could speak little by little.

After graduating, Helen gave a speech to several places and collected funds for invalid people. Although in deep sadness because of Miss Sullivan passing, she was still spiritful in making disabled people happy in the world. Because of Helen's struggle to make disabled people prosperous, in 1945 several countries in the world began to issue rules about protection for disabled people.

I’m very impressed with her perseverance. She not only made efforts for herself, but also for other people. She didn’t use her shortcomings as an obstacle. I hope we can take an example from Helen Keller and make everything possible if we try hard and seriously. Helen Keller said, “The public must learn that the blind man is neither genius nor a freak nor an idiot. He has a mind that can be educated, a hand which can be trained, ambitions which it is right for him to strive to realize, and it is the duty of the public to help him make the best of himself so that he can win light through work.”