Short Story

Short Story

Helen Adams Keller was a writer, activist and teacher American, deaf-blind since the age of 19 months. In his story, and that of the governess who taught her to interact with the outside world, so they can take their studies until graduation, dedicated the novel The Miracle Worker, which was a film that features both a play, both with a novel of the same name, which in Italian known as The Miracle Worker (Nielsen, Kim, 2007).

Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, which forms a small part of Alabama, in the United States of America. His deafblindness was caused by a fever in February 1882 when she was only 19 months old. His inability to communicate at such an early stage of development was very traumatic for her and her family, because this was nearly impossible for a while.

Despite their disabilities, many years later would give speeches about his life, and even write books about their experiences. All this was possible thanks to the great help and influence of his governess Anne Sullivan , who taught him to read and communicate with others, along with leading a disciplined life. To learn to write, Sullivan got his disciple a board specially designed grooved so that a pencil could form letters. To teach him to speak, Sullivan put Helen's hand in his throat so he could feel the vibrations created when communicating. Doctors at that point of time termed it as a 'brain fever', while the doctors of today presume the fact that it might be the fever of scarlet, or else the meningitis .

Irrespective of what the disease was, for a number of days, all I thought was that Helen died. When the fever subsided, Helen's family was happy thinking that his daughter would be fine.Moreover, her mother saw that Helen could not answer when it rang the bell for dinner. Even when her mother waved her hand before Helen's, she did not give any response. This made it clear to Helen's family that her disease had turned her into deaf and blind.

The years that followed were very tough for her, as well as, for her family. She was believed to be a child that was very difficult to control. She had the habit of throwing things and horrifying the complete family with irritability, shouting and anger. She was thought to be as monster by her relatives. Her family - and herself - not resigned to that fate, and were overcome by force of will and perseverance, and thanks to mentors and friends who helped, among them Anne Sullivan.

Helen Keller born on the estate of Ivy Green near Tuscumbia (Alabama), by Captain Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller. At 19 months, fell seriously ill: the doctors describe the disease as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain "(probably scarlet fever or meningitis). The disease does not last long, but leads to blindness and deafness in total. To communicate with parents, little Helen invents a series of conventional signs ...