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Character Sketch of Helen Keller


Helen Keller was born on 27th June 1880 in
Tuscumbia in Alabama. Her father, Arthur H. Keller, was a descendent of Caspar
Keller who was a native of Switzerland. He was a captain in the confederate
army. Helen’s mother was Kate Adams who was Arthur’s second wife and was many
years younger. At the age of nineteen months, Helen became very ill with brain
fever. When the fever subsided, Helen was left blind and deaf forever. Helen
was quite eager to learn. Despite her handicap she had learnt some crude signs
of communication and also how to fold the clothes etc. later, she showed
exceptional capabilities for learning and very soon could learn to read, write
or even speak. She had voracious passion for learning, knowledge and
exploration.


Like Wordsworth, she learnt to find solace in nature and its
peaceful serenity. Before Miss
Sullivan's arrival, this garden was the place where Helen went to find comfort
and hide her hot face in the cool leaves and grass. Helen felt extremely happy
in that garden of flowers, wandering happily from spot to spot. She could
recognize each vine and plant by touching them.  


Helen was a prodigy child since her early childhood!
However, the challenges she faced were quite arduous. After being
rendered blind and disabled in hearing and speaking, Helen's frustration to
learn more and more about life mounted very high. Her hearing disability
combined with visual disability made the teaching and learning more
challenging. Helen was a very industrious girl; she always did her best to
learn. She had such a natural, innate passion for learning which always
motivated her. Manual alphabet, reading, arithmetic, etc., all were formidable
challenges for her initially, but Helen overcame them. The most arduous of all
of them was learning to speak. Learning to speak is almost an impossible task
for those who  have hearing disability. So Helen had to work very hard.
She had to repeat each word and sentence many times for the right tone and
pronunciation. She practiced untiringly. At times she became discouraged and
weary too, but she never gave up. She faced all the difficulties courageously.
Her courage and perseverance are source of inspiration for all mankind!

Miss Sullivan 

Miss Sullivan inspired Helen through the qualities of her
love, care, and deep knowledge. She was herself the victim of visual
disability. She had overcome it with sheer practice. She was perfect in
teaching children suffering from visual and hearing disabilities. She knew the
manual alphabet and other teaching techniques. She won Helen's confidence
convincingly. 

Miss
Sullivan was an extraordinary teacher. The world is full of ordinary teachers
who just teach shallowly. Miss Sullivan touched the depths of Helen's soul and
brought light to her darkened world. 


The day she arrived at Helen's house, Helen called that day the most important
day of her life. Helen compared the arrival of her teacher to the shining of
'light of love' in her darkened life.

 Miss Sullivan took unprecedented pains to
teach Helen manual alphabet. Since Helen was suffering from hearing as well as
visual disabilities, Miss Sullivan really had to work very hard to teach Helen
the alphabet. 

In
the 7 chapter, Helen praises Miss Sullivan in the following words: "Thus I
learned from life itself. At the beginning I was only a mass of possibilities.
It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them. When she came, everything
about me breathed of love and joy and was full of meaning." It was Miss
Sullivan's genius, her sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of
Helen's education so beautiful. Miss Sullivan made learning easy and fun-filled
for Helen.


 Mrs.Kate
Adams Keller


Mrs. Kate Adams Keller was an extremely caring
mother. Towards Helen, she was more caring and responsible. Before Miss
Sullivan's arrival, she was her loving refuge.  Whenever Helen had a
tantrum of frustration on account of being unable to express herself, she would
go into her mother's arms where she would forget the cause of her tempest. Her
mother was very much concerned regarding Helen's education. She was always
requesting her husband to arrange for her education. It was she who saw the
hope of the possibility of Helen's education while reading the account of Laura
Bridgman. She wanted Helen to be educated like her. She also felt very sad on
knowing that Dr Howe, who had taught Laura Bridgman, had died. She was always
in search of finding out ways to make life of Helen more comfortable.



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