The story of my life/Helen Keller

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

The public must learn that the blind man is neither genius nor a freak

nor an idiot . He has a mind that can be educated , a hand which can be

trained , ambitions which it is right for him to strive to realize , and it is

the duty of the public to help him make the best of himself so that he can

win light through work

Helen Keller

Helen was born as a healthy baby girl on June 27 , 1880 in Tuscumbia

Northwest Alabama , United States of America to Captain Arthur Henley Keller and Kate Adams Keller . Their family lived in a simple house and her parents are both working in a cotton plantation and also have other jobs such as editor of a weekly local news for her father and by making butter , lard , bacon and ham for her mother . When Helen was nineteen months old she was diagnosed by doctors with brain fever , or modernly known as meningitis . The sickness caused her to lose her sight and hearing . Helen became both blind and deaf . Because of the result of the sickness , Helen became difficult with her tantrums and screaming and failed to respond to the household . Her relatives considered her a monster and advised her parents to place her in an institution . Through the book American Notes ' by Charles Dickens , her mother gained hope the Helen could be taught and visited Alexander Graham Bell who advised them to write to...