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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
Helen Keller lived an amazing life and overcame extreme obstacles. However, I did not find her autobiography all that interesting. The part of this special version, with all the supplementary accounts, that I liked best was the account from Anne Sullivan. It was much more interesting to see Helen's life from her teacher's point of view. I liked to hear about her teaching methods and how Helen progressed. At nearly 500 pages total, there was more here than I ever cared to know so I ended up skimming through quite a bit of it.
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In this book Helen Keller tells her experiences growing up as a child who was both blind and death. This made is very hard for her to communicate with her environment and for her environment with her. How do you teach a person who can’t see or hear anything a language? How do you teach her to read or write? How this can be done is told in Helen Keller’s story. She doesn’t only learn to communicate, read and write but also learns very hard and even manages to attend college. This is a very moving story that I can wholeheartedly recommend to everybody.
I listened to the Librivox audiobook and found it an average piece in their repertoire. The narrator wasn’t exceptional, but she wasn’t too bad either.
I listened to the Librivox audiobook and found it an average piece in their repertoire. The narrator wasn’t exceptional, but she wasn’t too bad either.
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I really enjoyed this book! It reminded me that I should be grateful that I can see, hear and talk! Helen Keller really explained that if you have courage, anything is possible. Reading this book, I understood how life works when you can't see or hear. Loved it!!!
I find it strange that Anne Sullivan is omitted in mention of Helen's closest friends in her last chapter.
If you've ever felt hard done by life and the many hard knocks you've experienced, this is something you should read. The language had been described as 'flowery' by some critics but I loved it. Possibly because I love old fashioned descriptions. Hellen Keller is the definition of inspiration. My favourite line, "Each individual has a subconscious memory of the green earth and murmuring waters, and blindness and deafness cannot rob him of this gift from past generations. This inherited capacity is a sort of sixth sense—a soul-sense which sees, hears, feels, all in one."