What set Miss Keller apart was that no similarly affected person before had done more than acquire the simplest skills.īut she was graduated from Radcliffe she became an artful and subtle writer she led a vigorous life she developed into a crusading humanitarian who espoused Socialism and she energized movements that revolutionized help for the blind and the deaf.
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Her remarkable mind unfolded, and she was in and of the world, a full and happy participant in life. In time, Miss Keller learned to circumvent her blindness, deafness and muteness she could "see" and "hear" with exceptionalĪcuity she even learned to talk passably and to dance in time to a fox trot or a waltz. Her life thereafter, as a girl and as a woman, became a triumph over crushing adversity and shattering affliction. The illness, perhaps scarlet fever, vanished as quickly as it struck, but it erased not only the child's vision and hearing but also, as a result, her powers of articulate speech. "Then," as she recalled later, "came the illness which closed my eyes and ears and plunged me into the unconsciousness of a newborn baby." Or the first 18 months of her life Helen Keller was a normal infant who cooed and cried, learned to recognize the voices of her father and motherĪnd took joy in looking at their faces and at objects about her home. JHelen Keller, Blind and Deaf Writer, Traveler and Humanitarian, Is Dead at 87 By ALDEN WHITMAN Helen Keller, Blind and Deaf Writer, Traveler and Humanitarian, Is Dead at 87
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