American novelist Helen Keller dedicated her life to teaching, influencing and motivating others, and she went on to become the most original writer of her era
Helen Keller was an amazing writer and a gifted woman. She communicated with all types of individuals using a straightforward manner. She wrote to uplift readers and support the aspirations of persons with disabilities. She used a variety of dictions, syntactic constructions, and imagery patterns in her writing to illustrate the events of her life. Keller wrote straightforwardly with excellent language and descriptions.
Hellen was born on 27 June 1880 in Alabama. She was born as a fully-abled child and learned to walk. When she was 19 months Helen caught a fever which was known as “acute congestion of the stomach and brain”, it caused he losing her sight and hearing ability.
The loss of sight and listening ability caused her trauma, which resulted in her being violent and unruly. In her biography, she says, “I got used to the silence and darkness that surrounded me and forgot it had ever been different until she came- my teacher”. The discovery of herself and her passion to learn new things invoked a positive attitude toward life. **
Anne Sullivan was a remarkable change in Helen’s life. Anne was a 20-year-old blind teacher that Helen met. Teaching Helen to obey and to love was in Anne’s opinion, the key to winning Helen over. She recognized the necessity of enforcing discipline while preserving her little spirit.
Anne started Helen’s lesson by writing or signing into her hand. To give Helen, Anne had carried a doll that the kids at Perkins had made for her. She intended to teach the youngster to associate items with letters by writing “d-o-l-l” into her hand.
Alexander Graham Bell and Mark Twain, two titans of American culture, were struck by Helen’s outstanding aptitude and her teacher’s special talents.
Because of how closely Helen and Anne were connected, Helen’s thoughts were accused by people as not her own. Helen was charged with plagiarism when she was just 11 years old. Both Bell and Twain, who were close friends of Helen and Anne, defended both the student and teacher while making fun of their critics.

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Helen had a strong desire to attend college at a very young age. She enrolled in the Cambridge School for Young Ladies in 1898 to get ready for Radcliffe College. She enrolled at Radcliffe in the fall of 1900 and became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in 1904.
The Helen Keller Archives has more than 475 speeches and writings she wrote, covering subjects like atomic energy, birth control, preventing blindness, and faith. Helen wrote her papers using a braille typewriter before having them transcribed on a conventional typewriter.
During her service for the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), Helen’s beliefs found their purest and most enduring expression. Helen began working with AFB in 1924 and remained an employee for more than 40 years.
She made the most of the opportunities the foundation gave her to campaign on a global scale for the concerns of those who were blind or partially sighted. Her trips across the country led to the establishment of state commissions for the blind, the construction of rehabilitation facilities, and the opening of educational opportunities for people who are blind or visually impaired.
She travelled to 35 nations on five continents throughout seven voyages between 1946 and 1957. She had meetings with world leaders like Golda Meir, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Winston Churchill.
Helen Keller spent her entire life serving people. She was a well-known author, public speaker, and campaigner with a tenacious personality. For centuries to come, her extraordinary life of eighty-seven years will always be honoured. She is an inspiration to many people with disabilities and others that “If there is a will, there is a way”.