My Effects on The World or Other People

I would say that my effects on other people are that I encouraged them that even if your blind and deaf you can do a lot of things. Also I believe that I showed that it's very hard, but capable to communicate and learn when you are both blind and deaf. Lastly, I convinced people to believe in themselves, and to make you believe that anything is possible.

Special or Interesting Facts About my Life

Some interesting things about me that I can recall is that one I loved the ocean my whole life. That means that I loved the ocean before and after my illness. Second, I was very intelligent. I even made hand signs to show what I wanted before Teacher came. The last one for right now is how I learned how to write both Braille and English. It was hard but I succeeded.

Extra Information

My Book Name: Helen Keller Rebellious Spirit
Author: Laurie Lawlor
Copyright Date: 2001
Publication: Holiday House/New York
Teacher: Anne Sullivan

Obstacles

If I had to choose three obstacles that have shaped or changed my life I would have to say that first, my illness which that made me blind and deaf was a big obstacle. I had to learn sign language to speak with someone. I also learned how to read and write Braille, and I learned how to write English.
Another obstacle that shaped my life was when I went to go see Laura Bridgeman who was a Perkins resident and nearly fifty-nine years old. I approached her and she gave me a kiss. I tried to touch her face, but she moved away she told Teacher that she did not teach me to be very gentle. I couldn't think of what else to do so I sat on the floor; and right away she yanked me up and reminded me not to dirty my dress. When I left I went to give her a kiss but instead I trampled her toes. She was a cold, old, motionless woman.
For the third obstacle that shaped my life was when my father died August 19, 1896. I was overwhelmed with grief. "My father is dead!” she wrote in a letter to Bell. "My own dear loving father! Oh, my dear friend, how shall I bear it! . . . I never knew how dearly I loved my father until I had realized I lost him." I had tried to go to the funeral, but my mother told me not to come. I had felt rejected.

Book Review

This book, Helen Keller Rebellious Spirit, was a good book. It gave a lot of information. Probably too much then I needed. It gave a lot of details which was good and bad. This was good because then I knew what was going on at the time. It was also bad because to me it didn't really stay on topic very well. I liked how the book gave great facts and had a timeline, but I would probably not read another book by this author.

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Character Traits

Words I would use to describe myself would be...
stubborn: most of the time I got my way-when people told me to do something that I didn't want to do I didn't do it. I did this mostly in my childhood.
Positive: I don't think much about the negative side of things in life plus, why think negative? You can always find something positive.
Loving: I remember the time I got mad at my little sister because she was eating a letter I had written, so I grabbed the letter out of her mouth; I felt really bad because she was crying, so I made her a different paper that she could eat. I can't stand when people are upset.
Blind& deaf: I got really sick when I was just two years old, and became blind and deaf.
Those are only some of many words I would describe myself as.

My Childhood

Hey! This is me, Helen Keller. I am here because I was told that you wanted to get an inside scoop on my life. To start off I will tell you about my childhood. I was born June 27, 1880. I had my horrible illness in February 1882. That means I was only two years old! The effect of my illness was to be blind and deaf.
My mommy and daddy hired Teacher to help me learn how to do things on my own. She came March 3, 1887 when I was six years old. I was very confused at first of how the sign language thing worked, but once I understood I was a very quick learner. Teacher told me that I could memorize a ton of things. Also she told me I was very intelligent.
Before Teacher came I was very spoiled! I would get almost everything I wanted. It got so bad that I took food off of other peoples plates. I was very unladylike and Teacher wasn't very happy.
Ever since I was a child I loved the outdoors. I loved it more while I was learning with Teacher because there was so much to learn about. I understood what sign language meant outside at the water pump near my house. My first word that I understood was water.