How did Helen Keller make an impact on other lives?

Answer 1

How her life changed.The Perkins Institute send over a young lady named Annie Sullivan, who would later become a best friend of Helen's, to treat Helen. Helen was a quick learner and in a very short time Sullivan had taught her the relationship between the symbols put in her hands to things they were related to. This was the first time in Helen's life when she didn't feel lonely. In an article written by Keller printed in Dennis Wepman's book, Helen Keller, Keller says:The world I see with my fingers is alive, ruddy, and satisfying. Touch brings the blind many sweet certainties which our more fortunate fellows mess, because their sense of touch is uncultivated. When they look at things, they put their hands in their pockets (Wepman 44).

It is this image of the world that allowed her to see herself as a person and not as a disabled. She now admired her talent rather than feeling agitated about it. At this point people also started to call her Miracle because she was able to make such a connection. Not only had she become a favorite of the people but also for men like Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, and even Albert Einstein. Einstein ones said:Your work, Mrs. Macy (the married name of Annie Sullivan), has interested me more than any other achievement in modern education. You not only imparted language to Helen Keller but you unfolded her personality, and such work has in it an element of the superhuman (Wepman 84).

She also made a great impact on the director of the Perkins Institute, Michael Anagonos. They formed a great friendship, which unfortunately ended when Helen was twelve because Anagonos believed that Helen copied parts of a story and passed it as hers. To these charges Helen had a "trial" in front of eight school representatives. Four of these representatives, including Anagonos, voted her guilty, while the other four considered her not guilty. Keller didn't deny this but was latter quoted as saying: "Long after I had forgotten it, it came back to me so naturally that I never suspected that it was the child of another mind (Wepman 50)." Even at the young tender age of twelve she had started to make an impact. A little after this scandalous issue, Helen wrote a autobiography wondering if this work was hers or someone else's, the people proved to her that this was her work by never relating the two issues with each other.

Helen's wanting to help others was very great not only as an adult but also as a child. In 1890, at just 10 years of age, she started raising funds for a little boy named Tommy Stringer. "Tommy Stringer, who, like her , was deaf and blind (Hunter 19)." She eventually raised sixteen hundred dollars for him. This money help send little Tommy to Perkins Institute. Not only did she help here, but she also helped Alexander Graham Bell's campaign to teach the deaf to speak (19). In 1932, Keller worked to set a standardized Braille form. She thought it was unnecessary for people to go through the trouble of learning so many different forms when one could be standardized (Wepman 81).

Answer 2

Helen Keller told speeches for the deaf -blind