Helen Keller

Helen Keller is...JosieI chose Helen Keller because she is very inspirational and shows everyone with disabilities is still equal. I just find how she overcame her disability is amazing. And  I've always been interested in her.

Helen kellerJosieHelen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1880. She also grew up there. She of course had a mother and a father she also had two brothers and a sister her brothers' names were Phillips and William Simpson and her sister's name was Mildred and when she was younger she had a dog named Belle. Helen Keller learned from Anne Sullivan who taught her to read and write when she was older she went to Radcliffe College. Something that interested Helen Keller is that she loved dogs when she was little she had a dog named Belle and when she grew up she got more dogs. One  interesting story also about dogs is that when she was little she tried to teach her dog to communicate like her teacher, Anne Sullivan, taught her sadly her dog never learned. Someone who definitely influenced Helen Keller is Anne Sullivan she taught her to communicate and to read and write. She said her dreams before her teacher came didn't have any sound or emotion except fear she said she often dreamed that she ran into a dark room she would feel something fall heavily but silently causing the floor to shake that would be scary. Helen Keller went to school at Radcliffe and became the first blind and deaf person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. Some foreshadowing that I found is that the first word she learned was water and she knew water was the stuff running over her hand so she wrote "water" back on her teacher's hand I thought that this showed growth for her and that she would get better and that there was still hope.        

Well Helen Keller has faced a lot of challenges in her life I mean she's deaf and blind but if I have to be more specific one of them is when she was little she had no way to communicate to her family and she couldn't hear them any more, that was one of her challenges. She overcame her challenges with her teacher Anne Sullivan her teacher taught her to communicate and really just helped her. The person who contributed the most to her success is Anne Sullivan. Helen Keller probably wouldn't be the person she became without Anne Sullivan. Like I said before she taught her to communicate and helped her. Helen Keller's qualities are kindness she knew what people felt like and tried to help them another quality is perseverance because she never ever gave up and the last quality is brave because imagine you're in a dark room where you can't see or hear anything that would be terrifying. A sad thing that happened to her in her life is that she wasn't born deaf and blind she became deaf and blind when she was 19 months old. An award that Helen Keller has gotten is the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

A fact about Helen Keller that surprised me is she was good friends with Mark Twain and Alexander Graham Bell. The three questions I would ask her would be How did you communicate with your family before you learned to communicate? How easy is your life being deaf and blind?  And How did you react when Anne Sullivan died? I wouldn't want to be her child because she never married so I would be fatherless and she's sadly dead and i wouldn't want my mom to be dead. I am happy I chose Helen Keller because I found out a lot of things I didn't know before and I found out that she's pretty interesting. I would look up to her as a role model because she's really amazing and inspirational.