Helen Keller Research Paper

Helen Keller was a strong person who was deaf, and blind. She was a very healthy baby until she reached to be about 19 months old. Helen Keller then became really ill, she got a high fever. (Shichtman 2). Her family and her discovered that she has acute congestion of the stomach and brain and that she was most likely to die. Helen didn't die from the fever, it left her as soon as they found out what she had come down with. (Shichtman 2) Although the disease did some massive damage on her eyesight and hearing. After she had come down with the disease it was too late to help her eyesight and her hearing so she ended up losing her eyesight and her hearing permanently. Before the illness, she knew how to say some words, but after she had come …show more content…
The doctor had some hope for Helen, he still believed she was educated, so he came up with an idea to write to a teacher about Helen and what is going on and explain everything that had happened with Helen, to see if the teacher could possibly help Helen in any way.(Shichtman 3) So the teacher said she was going to help Helen in any way she possibly could. So the teacher had known somebody that could help Helen, her name was Anne Sullivan somebody who could help Helen with her learning. Anne went to visit Helen, Anne went to go unpack her things and Helen followed her. Anne gave Helen a doll that she had brought with her to see if it could possibly help Helen, when she handed Helen the doll, Helen started to play with it. Anne then decided to write “doll” on Helen's hand to see how Helen would react and she spelled it out in the air to Anne. (Shichtman 3) The Keller’s also realized that when they all would sit down to have a family dinner Helen would eat and grab other food from others plates instead of her own.