A Brief Introduction to Helen Keller's Life
Helen Adams Keller (65438+June 27th, 0880-65438+June 1, 0968), an American educator for the disabled, was also translated as Helen Heller. 1880 was born in mbia, Tuscany, a small town in northern Alabama. She had a high fever for several days in1September, and was forced to go blind and deaf after being cured. In this dark and lonely world, she didn't give up, but kept improving herself and meditating.
With the help of Anne Sullivan, Helen learned to overcome the mental pain caused by physical defects with tenacious perseverance. She loves life and has gained a lot of knowledge, learned to read and speak, and started to communicate with others. He graduated with honors from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in the United States and became a famous writer and educator proficient in English, French, German, Latin and Greek. She traveled around the world to raise money for schools for the blind and devoted her life to the welfare and education of the blind. She has been praised by people all over the world and won awards from many governments.
Helen believes that the tragedy of vision and hearing loss often occurs in families that cannot treat their children in time because of poverty. In order to eliminate the evil phenomenon caused by social inequality, Helen joined the American Socialist Party and the International Federation of Industrial Workers (IWW) and became a radical socialist. I have written two articles about how I became a socialist and why I joined IWW to explain my motivation. However, western history textbooks often praise the story of Helen Keller's struggle with illness in her early years, but the fact that she became a socialist as an adult is deliberately ignored. I mentioned this in the book "Lies told by my teacher-mistakes made in American history textbooks". Helen Keller wrote 14 masterpieces in her life. My life is her first novel. As soon as the work was published, it immediately caused a sensation in the United States and was called "an unparalleled masterpiece in the history of world literature". More than 0/00 editions of/kloc have been published, which has a great influence in the world. This book is compiled by Helen Keller's My Life, out of the dark and Teacher, and the famous essay "If you give me three days of light" published by Atlantic Monthly, which gives a complete and systematic introduction to Helen Keller.
, a real and great life, many words are the first time to meet readers in China. Helen Keller is the eighth lesson of grade five in Jiangsu Education Press and the ninth lesson of grade six in Jiangsu Education Press. "My Teacher" was selected as the first-year textbook of Beijing Normal University Press, and "Rebuilding Life" was selected as the fifth lesson of the eighth grade of People's Education Press. "If you give me three days of light" (excerpt) was selected as the theme of cherishing life "Song of Life". In the 20th century, a unique life individual shocked the world in her brave way. Helen Keller, a woman who lives in darkness but brings light to mankind, has spent 88 spring and autumn years of her life, but has survived 87 years of loneliness without light, silence and words. However, it is such a claustrophobic person in the blind and deaf world who actually graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University. He spent all his life running around and set up a charity to benefit the disabled, and was selected as one of the top ten hero idols in the 20th century in America by Time magazine. Creating this miracle depends on an indomitable heart. Helen accepted the challenge of life, embraced the world with love, faced difficulties with amazing perseverance, finally found the bright side of life in the dark, and finally extended her loving hands to the world. Helen Keller (June 27th 1 880-65438+June10968) is a famous blind and deaf woman writer and speaker in the 20th century in America. With a strong will, she was admitted to Radcliffe College of Harvard University, became the first blind and deaf person in the world to complete her college education, and was selected by Time magazine in the United States. If you give me three days of light is Helen Keller's masterpiece of prose. From the perspective of a weak woman who is physically disabled and determined, she warned healthy people to cherish life and cherish everything given by the creator. In addition, My Life included in this book is regarded as "an unparalleled masterpiece in the history of world literature". Miss Sullivan gets along well with Helen Keller. They got along well within a few days of knowing each other, and Helen Keller also learned to read from Miss Sullivan. One day, the teacher wrote the word "water" on Helen Keller's palm. Helen Keller always confuses "cup" with "water". Later, she got impatient and broke the new doll that the teacher gave her. But Miss Sullivan didn't give up on Helen. She took Helen Keller to the fountain, asked her to put her little hand under the spray hole, and let the cool spring water spill on Helen Keller's hand. Then, Miss Sullivan wrote the words "water" and "water" on Helen Keller's palm. Since then, Helen Keller has firmly remembered this matter and will never be confused again. Helen later recalled: "Somehow, the secret of language was suddenly revealed, and I finally knew that water was a substance that flowed through my palm." The word "drink" awakened my soul and gave me light, hope and happiness. However, Miss Sullivan thinks that just knowing how to read without speaking is still inconvenient for communication. Helen Keller, however, was deaf and blind since she was a child, unable to hear other people's voices or see their mouths. Therefore, although she is not dumb, she can't speak. In order to overcome this difficulty, Miss Sullivan found an expert for Helen Keller, who taught her to feel the change of mouth shape when others spoke with her hands, and to learn pronunciation through the difference between inhaling and exhaling through the nasal cavity. Of course, it wasn't easy, but Helen Keller did it. Helen Keller, a blind writer, not only broke through the functional barriers and learned to speak, but also devoted her life to giving speeches to disabled people everywhere, encouraging them to affirm themselves and aspire to be a disabled person. Helen Keller's love not only gave the disabled full confidence, but also inspired all countries.
People face up to the welfare of the disabled and set up service institutions to help them live a healthy and happy life. 1968, Helen died at the age of 87. She devoted her life's service to the disabled people all over the world. She wrote many books and her story was made into a movie. Teacher Sullivan gave her the most precious love. She spread this love to all the unfortunate people and brought them hope. After her death, because of her strong will and outstanding contribution, people all over the world were moved to hold activities to commemorate her. Helen Keller was blind and deaf due to illness since childhood, but she made unremitting efforts to overcome great difficulties and completed her college studies. He wrote more than a dozen works in his life and devoted himself to social activities to help disabled children, protect women's rights and interests and strive for racial equality. 1964 won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her deeds have been made into movies twice. His story has also been compiled into the ninth lesson of Helen Keller, a fifth-grade Chinese textbook of the Soviet Education Press, and the fifth lesson of Rebuilding Life, a Chinese textbook of the Eighth People's Education Press, and also into the eighth module of the twelfth volume of primary school English.
A change of fate
Helen Keller, an American female scholar, was blind and deaf because of illness at the age of one and a half. Under the enthusiastic care and careful guidance of her tutor Sullivan, she studied mathematics, nature, French and German with tenacious perseverance, and passed the Harvard Women's College with excellent results, graduating with 1940. She completed 14 works in her life, devoted herself to the welfare and education of the blind, and won the praise of world public opinion. Helen Keller was born in Tasmania, Alabama, USA on June 27th, 1980. His father, Captain Arthur Keller, is the supreme commander of the local army. He is a very generous and hospitable person. He was a healthy baby when he was born, but he suffered from acute encephalitis at 19 months, and he lost his hearing and vision. However, she still tries to keep in touch with the outside world and communicate with her family in her own sign language. But with the growth of age, such communication can no longer satisfy her, and her temper has begun to become grumpy. The whole family is worried about her illness. When Helen was 6 years old, with the help of her family doctor, her parents invited johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy from Perkins School for the Blind as Helen Keller's first tutor.
Meet the tutor
Miss Sullivan is very caring. She first understood Helen's temper. She finally knew that Keller's temper was so restless because her parents couldn't help watching her be punished for doing something wrong (hitting people, breaking rules, destroying things, etc.). ), so they gave her candy when she did something wrong. Therefore, Teacher Sullivan must correct the wrong behavior of these parents, establish a relationship of mutual trust with her, and patiently teach Helen sign language so that she can communicate with others and teach her more. Later, Helen learned to point to Braille with her fingers and basic life etiquette. After some training, when she was 10 years old, her parents invited a teacher named Sarah Flova from Hollesman school to teach her to speak, and Helen finally learned to speak. She put her middle finger on the teacher's nose, her index finger on her lips and her thumb on her throat. This is a very difficult thing for a blind and deaf person. Under the careful instruction of her parents and teacher Sullivan, Helen changed her view of the world, began to study hard and became serious. We should also learn to feel the things around us with touch.
enter a school
From 65438 to 0898, Helen Keller entered Cambridge Girls' School in Massachusetts. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/900, it was incredible that a blind and deaf person applied to attend Radcliffe College of Harvard University. Finally, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in 1904, becoming the first deaf-mute blind person to graduate from a higher education institution. For so many years, Miss Sullivan has been accompanying Helen Keller, writing textbooks and classroom contents on Helen Keller's palm, so that Keller can understand the contents. It can be said that she has never left Helen, so Helen is grateful to her all her life.
Educate the public
Helen founded the Helen Keller Foundation on 1924, and joined the American Foundation for the Blind as its national and international relations consultant. Later, she gave a speech at the annual meeting of the Lions Club International, and she asked the Lions Club to become a "warrior to help the blind overcome the darkness". He said, "I opened a window of opportunity for you. I am knocking at your door." From 65438 to 0946, he worked as an international relations consultant for the American Global Blind Foundation and began to travel around the world, visiting 35 countries. She tries her best to build schools for blind people all over the world, and often goes to hospitals to visit patients and share her experiences with them, so as to give them the will to survive. She also fought for the rights and interests of the poor and blacks and advocated world peace. Made a great contribution to this.
be written into the annals of history
Helen Keller was 87 years old. After her death, because of her strong will and outstanding contribution, she touched the whole world, and people all over the world held activities to commemorate her. Someone once commented on her: "Helen Keller is the pride of mankind, an example for us to learn, and a manifestation of human kindness." I believe that her deeds can be a model for future generations. "
signature analysis
If I stand at the end of my life now and the spark of my life is about to go out, what would I think and do? You will also sigh that life is short and fragile, and regret not cherishing it? Make good use of your eyes, if you will be blind tomorrow. Listen to the beauty of music, listen to the songs of birds, listen to the powerful tunes of the orchestra, if you are going to be deaf tomorrow. Touch everything you want to touch, if your touch will decline tomorrow. Smell the fragrance of all the flowers and taste every mouthful. If you don't smell it tomorrow, you won't taste it. People! Why do you always have to wait until you lose it before you regret it? Why are we always so greedy, seldom cherish what we have, but long for what we don't have! Perhaps, you will feel that God has given us these beautiful things, even life, for granted. But have you ever thought, when one day, what you have, even your life, will be lost, what will you do, regret or give up on yourself? If so, it would be sad. Yes, I can't make the same mistakes as others. I would rather cherish them now. 1On the afternoon of June, 968, Helen Keller died in her sleep at the age of 87. Keller was deaf and blind due to scarlet fever at 19 months after birth, but miraculously lived his whole life.
Helen's misfortune
A baby girl was born in Tuscany, northern Alabama. This baby girl is Helen Keller. She is good at listening and articulate, and her parents expect her to be a musician! However, when she was two years old, a serious illness (scarlet fever) robbed her of her hearing and vision, and then she lost the ability to express herself in words, making her feel as if she were in a black prison. When she was five years old, she added another sister to her family: Midlet. Helen can't eat cookies at once every time. When she put the doll in the cradle, there was something soft in it. Every time she wants to climb on her mother's knee, that soft thing is on it again. Once, she knocked over her sister's cradle. If her mother hadn't arrived in time, her sister might have died. But for all this, little Helen, who can't see or hear, has no regrets. Her temper is getting worse. Until miss Sullivan arrived.
Helen's transformation
Because Helen was deaf and blind from childhood, her family had to ask a teacher to educate her. With the help of Mr. Janak Nais, Dean of Perkins College, a teacher named Anne Sullivan was sent to tutor Helen. It was Sullivan who changed Helen's life. After a long train journey, Teacher Anne Sullivan arrived safely in Tasmania by carriage on March 3rd. When Miss Sullivan came to Helen's door, she saw Helen like a kitten falling into the water: her brown hair was messy and her delicate clothes were dirty. In Helen's memory, people who come by carriage often have things like candy and toys in their suitcases. So, she took out everything. Sullivan was surprised and quickly got the suitcase back, but Helen was very angry and rushed to her. If Helen's father hadn't stopped her, the two of them would have rolled to the ground. The next morning, there was another breakfast fight. The following events softened Helen's unruly character. Finally, Helen gave in. She learned to speak and graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in America. She became a famous writer and educator proficient in English, French, German, Latin and Greek. She traveled all over the United States and the world to raise money for schools for the blind and devoted her life to the welfare and education of the blind. She has won the praise of people all over the world and won many government awards.
Helen Keller international company
Helen Keller International. Helen Keller International (Inc for short) was founded by Helen Keller and other Americans in 19 15. Its purpose is to help the government prevent blindness and pay attention to the education of blind children who are integrated into the mainstream of society and the rehabilitation of adult blind people who can live independently. HKI has made great efforts to help developing countries and improve their ability to make their own plans. It is also engaged in the research and prevention of dry eye, trachoma and other infectious eye diseases caused by malnutrition and vitamin A deficiency, and also provides surgical services for cataract blindness and vision recovery. Where conditions permit, HKI organically combines blindness prevention projects with primary medical services. Helen Keller's spirit is worth learning! (2) 1880 On June 27th, Helen Keller was born in a small town in northern Alabama, USA. Her life has set an example for people to fight against fate. Helen Keller is a writer and educator admired all over the world. Although fate robbed her of her eyesight and hearing, this woman seized her by the throat with diligence and perseverance. Her name became a symbol of perseverance, and her legendary life became a great spiritual force to inspire people to overcome bad luck. ■ "If you give me three days of light, the first person I want to see is my dear teacher." At the age of one year and seven months, the sudden high fever caused by scarlet fever made Helen blind and deaf, and became a blind, deaf and dumb disabled person. Because the deaf-mute child can't get access to the correct information, the window of the soul is imprisoned, which leads to her bad temper and bad temper. At the age of seven, a female teacher named Anne Sullivan came to her side and accompanied Helen for half a century, guiding her out of endless darkness and loneliness with love and wisdom. The miracle created by Helen in her life is inseparable from this outstanding young educator for deaf children. Helen expressed her love for Miss Sullivan in her famous article "If I have three days of light": "If I have three days of light, the first thing I want to see is my dear teacher." On the day when Sullivan went to Helen's home as a tutor, she gave her a doll and slowly spelled the word "d-o-l-l" repeatedly with her finger on Helen's little hand. Helen became interested in this game at once. She imitated the teacher's actions again and again, and began to understand that everything in the world had its own name, and began to know that her name was "Helen Keller". Since then, Helen has learned and mastered French, German, Latin and Greek. Although deaf and blind, she can master five languages. Helen's success is called "the greatest achievement in the history of education". Helen's "dumb" is caused by hearing loss, and her vocal cords are not damaged. At the age of ten, Helen began to learn to speak. Because she can't hear others and her own voice, she can only feel the movement of her throat and lips when the teacher pronounces, and then imitate and correct her voice thousands of times. When she first said "it's warm" like a normal person, both she and Sullivan realized that there was no insurmountable difficulty in the face of their tenacious perseverance. In Helen's life, she even took traveling around the world as an important part of her career. Besides reading, she also likes riding, swimming and boating. She loves the performing arts of drama. With indomitable will, Helen learned to lip-read, and she could hear the short stories recited by Mark Twain with both hands, and completed her studies at Harvard University, a world-famous university, with excellent results. Reading not only makes Helen a knowledgeable scholar, but also cultivates her beautiful mind.