Helen Keller by Abigail M.

 

Have you ever wondered about how Helen Keller became successful? Well, first she started out with a bad behavior and gave up on her life. But when her teacher Anne Sullivan taught things, she never knew she began to think that she can do things she thought she could never learn and just by not giving up she is where she is now. She was a famous author, good teacher, and other roles.… Helen Keller lived a successful life despite adversity. Here's her story.

 For starters, Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in the small town of Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen Keller was around nineteen months old when she got a horrible case of scarlet fever, leaving her deaf and blind. Soon they found a partially blind teacher named Anne Sullivan. It states on History.com, “Anne Sullivan was at the time 20 years old when she began teaching Keller. "When Sullivan just started teaching Hellen, she used a teaching technique where she placed something in Keller's hand and then would spell out the word on her hand. When Sullivan ran water over Keller's hand, she understood what Anne was trying to teach her.” Keller knew she could learn more. This is when she began learning more and more things. It was like a light was turned on. Before this, she was living like a wild child with tantrums.

Furthermore, in 1888 Hellen started attending The Perkins Institute for the Blind. This was a basic schooling course for someone with a disability. This wasn’t getting Keller nowhere. As soon as she graduated from the PIFTB, she and Anne Sullivan moved to New York to attend a school for the deaf. In New York she also started speech lessons with Sarah Fuller. According to the site History.com, it says, “In 1896 They returned to Massachusetts, and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies”. There she studied more until she got accepted to Radcliffe College of Harvard University. For someone deaf and blind, she was moving up with education at an amazing rate.

Finally, Helen went on and became a famous author and she set her mind to educate students. Keller was the first deaf and blind person to earn a bachelor's degree. This was one of her greatest accomplishments. According to britannica.com, it tells how went on and grew older and was recognized by many people. Even famous and well-established people got to know who she was. She also got many more trophies and medals for her good work. Later on Helen Keller died at the age of 87 in 1968, June 1. She grew to learn what life can bring and how she could help those in need. Helen Keller would be the perfect person to look up to.

To sum up this explanation, I'd say Helen Keller had the most surprising life. She lived a successful life while facing many challenges like her being deaf and blind. But in the end, she overcame those problems and focused on what she could do and what she wanted to achieve. Helen died a strong woman who held on to what her life could bring. Helen Keller once said, “When one door of happiness closes, another opens.”