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A review by shejwiwj
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
5.0
I will explain why I gave this book 5 stars. Not because of the beautiful syntax or captivating passages (as most passages are not very captivating, she writes in a steady calm manner), but because of giving the reader(me) a priceless gift of opened and new perspective and knowledge and that must be what a purpose of every book is, to my understanding.
Thanks to her I now think that blind and/or deaf people are limited or deprived as they are. They are fully capable and happy people. The disadvantage comes from outside and never from within.
Thank you for making me feel like this blind and deaf girl was some kind of superwoman, with abilities out of our reach. Thank you for making me think, inadvertently, “I wish I was deaf and blind so that I can have all the senses that Helen has”. Thank you for showing me in plain sight how Steven Hawking was right saying that we don’t evolve passing information in our DNAs any more, but in our books and mouth to mouth and any person devoid of that information is a savage not by choice, but by our origin.
That brings me to confirm that we are not a “superior species” in any way; that is the information passed on to us that keeps us from immoral degradation and any child or group of children brought up apart from that(that is being the information) is bound to be wild.
To people, who would think “that’s what you got from reading Helen Keller?😯” I would say: “Read it. And tell me what you think”.
Thanks to her I now think that blind and/or deaf people are limited or deprived as they are. They are fully capable and happy people. The disadvantage comes from outside and never from within.
Thank you for making me feel like this blind and deaf girl was some kind of superwoman, with abilities out of our reach. Thank you for making me think, inadvertently, “I wish I was deaf and blind so that I can have all the senses that Helen has”. Thank you for showing me in plain sight how Steven Hawking was right saying that we don’t evolve passing information in our DNAs any more, but in our books and mouth to mouth and any person devoid of that information is a savage not by choice, but by our origin.
That brings me to confirm that we are not a “superior species” in any way; that is the information passed on to us that keeps us from immoral degradation and any child or group of children brought up apart from that(that is being the information) is bound to be wild.
To people, who would think “that’s what you got from reading Helen Keller?😯” I would say: “Read it. And tell me what you think”.