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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
Was disappointed the story ended at her 2nd year of college. Would have liked to learn more about the activism and personal adult life.
I didn't really know anything about Helen Keller before reading this -- just that she was blind and deaf and famous for being educated despite those things. I'm far more impressed with her now -- she writes wonderfully, fully describing the width and breadth of her world. While one might assume she neatly slides over some of her more difficult struggles, based on how little page space she gives them, she talks in some detail about the ways she learned to communicate and the adaptive equipment designed for her. A quick, interesting read.
A remarkable story of a remarkable woman who defeats all the odds stacked against her. Helen at the age of 19 months old contracts an illness that renders her both deaf and blind. This story mainly focuses on Helen's earlier life and describes how she learns to read, write and communicate with the aide of her teacher Miss Sullivan after her family decide to take her to the Perkins Institute for the blind in Boston in 1886, Anne Sullivan becomes instrumental in her life teaching her methods in communicating but then also later becoming a loyal friend and constant companion, her part in Helen's life I believe is paramount to Helen's wellbeing and where her love of learning and discovering develops. She describes in abundance her love of reading books, her appreciation of the written word leads her to forge ahead into higher education and takes on many courses to further her academics she becomes frustrated as her determination is impeded by the lack of ways that she is able to articulate her knowledge in the conventional ways and finds many methods to overcome many of the obstacles that threaten to detract her. She eventually succeeds in attending Radcliffe college and graduates there at the age of 24. This story is told beautifully in a tone that really captures the essence of Helen, she's feisty, stubborn willful and determined with an incorrigible thirst for knowledge, how she overcomes so much to succeed and even excel in her endeavours is truly admirable. She is one of a kind! I'm so glad to have read this book and it's infinitely inspiring on so many levels.
hopeful
inspiring
slow-paced
I really enjoyed getting to know Helen Keller and learning about her experiences. Her story is fascinating, and to read it in her own words touched me all the more deeply. She has a beautiful way with words and an excellent sense of humor.
Truly one of the most inspiring stories of the human spirit overcoming advertisy. Despite Helen Keller's almost incomprehensable combination of handicaps, she seems to overcome all impediments to become a beloved speaker and motivator.
informative
medium-paced
Fascinating, inspirational, and charming. Only 4 stars though because there are so many more questions I have about her life and Ms Sullivan’s life now.
inspiring
As an American Sign Language, Interpreting student, Helen Keller is not far from discussion when the manual alphabet comes into the conversation. While I thought I knew what there was to know about one of history's more hopeful and inspiring figures, I was sadly wrong. But in the style of Helen herself, I forgave and moved forward.
Based on her own words Helen was more than the face of the Deaf and Blind population, she was a poet, a sportsman, a scientist, a polyglot, and a determined woman in all she faced. Although her relationship with A.G. Bell was not what I was expecting, her overall story and appreciation for all the lessons and people in her life was inspiring enough to apply those thoughts and feelings to my own.
I would recommend using the audiobook, if able, in order to hear the beauty in each description and adjective used to describe each and every person, place, and thing!
Based on her own words Helen was more than the face of the Deaf and Blind population, she was a poet, a sportsman, a scientist, a polyglot, and a determined woman in all she faced. Although her relationship with A.G. Bell was not what I was expecting, her overall story and appreciation for all the lessons and people in her life was inspiring enough to apply those thoughts and feelings to my own.
I would recommend using the audiobook, if able, in order to hear the beauty in each description and adjective used to describe each and every person, place, and thing!