The Story of My Life

Description

Unlike most people, Helen Keller did not allow herself to be bound by constraints and limitations. However, while most of us have all our five senses at our disposal to counteract life’s difficulties, Helen was left both blind and deaf at only 19 months of age, after having struggled with scarlet fever.

Despite this debilitating limitation and some of the most troubling and difficult six years of her life that followed – during which she was prone to violent fits due to her inability to express herself – a turning point occurred which would change her life forever.

Supported by the intervention of famed inventor Alexander Graham Bell – whom she had dedicated The Story of My Life to – Helen Keller was placed in the care of Anne Sullivan, who had also been blind before a series of surgeries managed to partially give her back her sight. Through methods such as spelling a word on Helen’s hand, while exemplifying it by touching the object the word represented on her other hand, Anne Sullivan managed to teach her, after many painstaking efforts, to read, write and express herself.

Helen Keller’s remarkable determination helped her overcome many of her constraints, until she became the famed author that we all know and love. This book is a significant milestone in Keller’s life, presenting all the good and bad of her youth and childhood, and offering a detailed, unprecedented glimpse into a world without sound or light that is still surprisingly alive and thriving.

If you want to be inspired, you will definitely enjoy every moment of The Story of My Life, its genuine qualities transcending everything we know about the world through our dominant senses, and presenting us with the beauty of enjoying a flower’s motion and fragrance, instead of focusing solely on its outward beauty.
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