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Title: Story of My Life (Bantam Classic) by Helen Keller ISBN: 0-553-21387-3 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (44 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: good good good
Comment: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is an autobiography illustrating her insistent desire in learning how to write and read and defeating her deafness and blindness at the same time. This book records her life back from when she was as young as 4. Due to the loss of sight and hearing at the age of 19 months, Helen lived her life in frustration and pain in her early life. She couldn't understand her family because she didn't yet learn how to communicate. To solve that, her parents hired Ms. Anne Sullivan who influenced her the most. Even througt special education with Ms. Sullivan, Helen coulsn't communicate with her family without Ms. Sullivan's translations. Yet, Helen didn't give up. Her passion for learning how to read and write overcame the obstacles. Her improvements on reading, writing, and arithmetic amazed her teachers and family. She has succeeded in many many areas which helped her to get in college. On her way, there were events that made her learn that deafness can be conquered, such as the blind institution, etc. The students in blind institution were one of Helen's inspiration in learning. Since they lived states away, Helen must contact her friends by mail. That motivated Helen's will to write more. The attached letters in the book shows how much she's improved since she first started to write. This book has taught us lessons that we would never learn in everyday life. Helen Keller defeated her disabilities and lived went to college as a result of her hardworks. Her courage and insistence should be admired. Teenagers nowadays worry much more on appearance or etc rather than their future. This book shows the lesson of working hard, and anything would be possible.
Rating: 4
Summary: Student Review
Comment: Helen Keller
Helen Keller starts off with her childhood and how she interacted with the people around her. She expresses great emotions towards people and her passions. She has great description about her childhood and has you evolved in her life somewhat. She shows great "show don't tell "throughout her story. The only thing that is upsetting is this story is titled the story of my life and this is only the first part of her life. The ending letters expresses more about her on a more personal basis.
When dealing with Helen Keller's acute illness that left her deaf and blind, commutating with others was a frustration. Her frustration soon turned to brilliance and Helen found different ways to commutate with her parents. Using hand signals, she taught herself to learn. As a deaf and blind student, she studied subject such as Greek, algebra, Latin and many other subjects. The end of her story talks of her graduation from Radcliff College.
This book of Helen Keller shows how life can be hard but it was even harder for her because of her disability this book opens your eyes to make you enjoy your life you take for granite and that's why this book is a wonderful master peace of writing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Where Heart and Depth Transcend the Mind
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A book to read that is of the warmness of soul, an account that conveys love and realness. The body and the mind are only the peripheries, for it is the soul or consciousness that is of the real person. So when the mind is expanded in knowledge and intellect, one can find erroneously enter in it's subjectivity defining such as the real self or one can use such intellectualism as an instrument of the consciousness and view objectively. This then allows the heart and feelings to penetrate, in turn the mind is transcended, one goes beyond the mind to the real inner self. And when this occurs the result culminates in the most beautiful and extraordinary person. Such is the case of Helen Keller.
Her fingers found expression, felt emotion and penetrated the surface into the feelings and depth in the person she encountered, in the words that she read and in the vibrations that she felt. I have read in the East, that consciousness does not come to us solely through the eyes and ears, but when such peripheries are down we can perceive in much more strength through other senses.
"I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed. I can feel in the faces of gods and heroes hate, courage and love, just as I can detect them in living faces I am permitted to touch." P. 68
In a letter she received from Mr. Gilder, Helen wrote,
"In a letter he wrote me he made his mark under his signature deep in the paper so that I could feel it." . . . and " I feel the twinkle of his eye in the handshake." P. 75
Case in point is that of poetry. What the average school teacher and intellectual defines in art and poetry are the stanzas, the numerical structures and literary criticism. Now this actually destroys such forms of art. But what intellectual, a person that uses their head without the heart can fathom any understanding beyond such? Helen wrote:
"Great poetry, whether in English or Greek, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart. Would that the host of those who make the great works of the poets odious by their analysis, impositions and laborious comments might learn this simple truth! It is not necessary that one should be able to define every word and give it its principal parts and its grammatical position in the sentence in order to understand and appreciate a fine poem." p. 59
Not only did she find the external world but went to the university and went further in learning and knowledge than most. But it is her understanding and diligence, her positivism and depth that this autobiography conveys.
After reading her account, I can say that if I could love another person, I have fallen in love with Helen.
"Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitations touches at many points the lif of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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Title: Light in My Darkness by Helen Keller, Ray Silverman, Dorothy Herrmann ISBN: 0877853983 Publisher: Chrysalis Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title:The Miracle Worker ASIN: B000056HEB Publisher: MGM/UA Video Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $12.26 |
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Title: Helen Keller's Teacher by Margaret Davidson ISBN: 0590446525 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Helen Keller: A Life by Dorothy Herrmann ISBN: 0226327639 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The World I Live in / Helen Keller (New York Review Books Classics) by Helen Keller, Roger Shattuck ISBN: 1590170679 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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