Helen Keller's inspirational short stories 1 Helen Keller was born as an alert and lively girl. When she was 6 months old, she could clearly say some simple words. Unfortunately, in February of 1882, she suffered from a bad cold and sustained high fever, which caused complications and eventually led to blindness and deafness. Since then, she has fallen into a dark and silent chaotic world.
However, it is such a deaf, blind and dumb girl who passed the exams in German, French, Latin, English literature, Greek and Roman history at Harvard University. This is undoubtedly a miracle in an era when college education is not yet universal, entrance examinations are extremely strict, and it is not easy for normal people to go to college! So how was this miracle created?
First of all, this is due to her parents and many enthusiastic people around her, who created a good educational environment for her and enabled Helen Keller to know the world in her own unique way. Since Helen Keller's serious illness, her mother has tried her best to help her understand all kinds of things and often give her encouragement. Her father often guides her to touch all kinds of plants in the yard. Under their guidance, with her intelligence, Helen has been able to help her mother with housework and express herself with gestures or body language.
1887, with the help of Dr. Bell who invented the telephone, a knowledgeable and enthusiastic tutor AnnieSullivan came to Helen. She gave Helen selfless love and help. She spelled out the words of all kinds of things in Helen's hand with her fingers, and took her to touch all kinds of things around her, so that she could gradually understand the world she lived in. After a period of hard work, Helen mastered the essentials of sign language and began to exchange ideas with others. At the same time, under the cultivation of Sullivan, Helen has also formed a positive, cheerful and optimistic personality.
In May, Helen Keller went to Perkins School for the Blind in Boston. 1890 From March 26th, Helen began to learn to pronounce by touching her lips under the guidance of acoustic expert Sarah Hera, and finally she spoke clear and complete sentences. Helen once became a famous news figure.
1893, Dr. Bell invited Helen to visit the Chicago World Expo, which opened her eyes. Since then, Helen has systematically studied specialized courses, including Latin, arithmetic, human geography, French and German.
From 1896 to 10, Helen Keller had the idea of going to college. The school she chose was the world-famous Harvard University. The entrance examination of this school is very strict, and many excellent students find it difficult to pass. However, Helen overcame the difficulties and worked hard for her goal. She first went to Cambridge Girls' School affiliated to Harvard University to study for the preparatory course. In three years, she studied English history, English literature, German, Latin, physics, astronomy and other courses, which laid a good foundation for entering Harvard University. 1On June 30th, 899, Helen successfully passed the entrance examination of Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University, and obtained the admission qualification of Harvard University.
Another important reason why Helen Keller can enter Harvard University is her intelligent talent and unremitting efforts. Although she can't hear or see, she still shows high understanding, as smart and lively as a normal child, and her curiosity about external things is the driving force for her to know the world. This is the foundation of Keller's success and achievement. Besides, Helen has extraordinary perseverance. Whenever she makes up her mind to achieve her goal, she always overcomes all difficulties and tries to achieve it. As she said in her memoirs, she can't walk on a wide and flat road like others, but the rugged and even thorny path is still a road. As long as there is a road, she is ready to go and never look back.
At all stages of her study, Helen has been very diligent, practicing and groping repeatedly. Especially when she went to Cambridge Girls' School, she paid much more sweat than ordinary people. Because Cambridge Girls' School is an ordinary school, there are no teachers with experience in teaching blind and deaf students. Therefore, when Helen is in class, she must be conveyed by Teacher Sullivan in class. Many of the subjects she wants to learn don't have braille textbooks, so she must learn them in braille. Besides, she can't take notes or write exercises in the classroom. She must take the composition and translation back to her home typewriter to type. When studying mathematics, physics, astronomy and other natural sciences, Helen needs more explanations for what normal students can understand at a glance because of physical obstacles. The existence of these difficulties did not knock Helen down, but made her stronger and upward.
After Helen entered the long-awaited university, she began to study nervously and hard. Teacher Sullivan has been with her all the time, translating the professor's words into reference words and conveying them to her, and relaying the handouts without braille textbooks. She spends several times as much time studying the content of the handout as ordinary people. But she never complains and writes in her spare time. From 65438 to 0903, she published her autobiographies My Life and Lotte Doctrine. After graduating from college, Helen and Sullivan made a living by selling manuscripts in an old farmhouse in Lianshan. At the same time, she devoted her life to the welfare of the blind.
Warning proverb
The most beautiful things in the world are invisible and intangible, and you have to feel them with your heart.
The greatest disaster in life lies not in the trauma of the past, but in giving up the future.
Live every day as if it were your last.
I will be happy if I forget myself-so I will try to regard the light in others' eyes as my sun, the music in others' ears as my music, and the smile on others' lips as my happiness.
Helen Keller's inspirational short story 2 Introduction to Helen Keller
Helen Keller, American social educator. From an early age, he became a disabled person with three kinds of pain: blindness, deafness and dumb. But with the help of her parents and an excellent enlightenment teacher, she overcame unimaginable obstacles with strong perseverance, learned to write and express her thoughts, received education, and finally became a person who contributed to society and was admired by the world.
The story of Helen Keller
Helen Keller was born in Tuscany, northern Alabama, USA. His father, Colonel Kate Keller, was born in a noble family in the southern United States. He is the owner and editor-in-chief of the North Alabama newspaper and a celebrity in Tuscany.
Helen Keller's mother was also born in a prominent family. Colonel Biket Keller is 20 years younger and is his second wife. Her mother is a famous local beauty.
1882 One day in February, little Helen Keller, who was only two years old, suddenly fell ill, which made Kate Keller and his wife anxious as hell. They immediately sent little Helen Keller to the hospital. In the hospital, little Helen Keller still has a high fever. Later, after a doctor's diagnosis, little Helen Keller suffered from scarlet fever, which is likely to be life-threatening.
After a period of treatment, Helen Keller's life was saved, but she became a deaf, dumb and blind girl. Little Helen Keller, who grew up day by day, wanted to walk, but every time she took a step away, she was always black and blue.
My mother takes little Helen Keller to familiarize herself with the location of every piece of furniture in the house every day. A month later, little Helen Keller was free to walk around the house.
When she was five years old, little Helen Keller not only knew where the furniture in her house was, but also knew where each of her clothes were, because she was used to folding them up and putting them away by herself. Helen Keller is a strong child. Although she can't hear, see or speak, she is eager to communicate with others, so she often communicates with her parents by gestures. However, sometimes her parents don't understand her meaning, and the strong little Helen Keller cries sadly.
Later, my parents invited a very experienced Miss Anne Sullivan to teach deaf children to little Helen Keller. When we first met, Anne Sullivan brought a doll to little Helen Keller. Little Helen Keller likes this doll very much. Sullivan looked at the happy little Helen Keller, took her hand and wrote the word "doll". But little Helen Keller didn't understand what this meant, so Sullivan took pains to let him touch the doll again and again, and then wrote the word on her palm.
When Sally taught Helen Keller the word "water", she also adopted this method. She first touched Helen Keller's hand with water, felt its appearance, and then wrote the word water on the palm of her hand. At this time, Helen Keller finally understood the meaning of the word water, so she took Sullivan and asked her to spell the same things around her, such as tables, chairs, beds, clothes and so on.
In addition, Sullivan often takes little Helen Keller to the garden to learn about flowers and trees. Grass, birds and other creatures make little Helen Keller very interested in learning. Sullivan began to teach her Braille, and Helen Keller began to read books for the blind. As Sullivan seldom reads this kind of writing, it will take her a lot of time and energy to catch up with Helen Keller.
1On May 26th, 888, unsatisfied Helen Keller was admitted to Sullivan's alma mater Perkins College and began to study formally. At this time, Sullivan is still studying with Helen Keller.
Miss Sullivan is an experienced and enthusiastic person. She thinks that children like Helen Keller can pronounce normally, so she asks Helen Keller to touch her face with her hands, let Helen Keller feel the movement of her tongue, mouth and face when she speaks, and then let Helen Keller imitate her pronunciation. Helen Keller quickly learned six words. Inspired by Miss Sullivan, Helen Keller began to learn to speak. Of course, this is not an easy thing for a child of 10, but Helen Keller can finally speak completely after daily practice and persistence.
Then she learned five languages with amazing perseverance: French, English, German, Greek and Latin. She also studied algebra, geometry and physics with tenacious perseverance. These courses were taught by the teacher above, and Sullivan spelled the contents in the palm of Helen Keller below. During this period, she studied while writing and translating with a typewriter. On June 29th, 1896, Helen took part in the preliminary examination of Radcliffe College of Harvard University. After hard work, she was finally admitted to Harvard University. The news shook new york.
From 65438 to 0897, Helen Keller, a blind student at Harvard University, wrote the autobiographical novel The Story of My Life in hundreds of thousands of words. After the novel was published, it aroused strong repercussions in the United States. Helen won the respect of the whole world for this.
Helen Keller's love story
Silent love blooms quietly.
1880 June, Helen Keller was born in Tasmania, Alabama, USA. Her father, Captain Arthur Keller, is the supreme commander of the local army. After she was deaf and blind, her family found her a teacher named Anne Sullivan. She not only taught Helen to read, but also taught her to feel the difference between the mouth shape change when others speak and the breath through the nasal cavity with her hands, so as to recognize the language pronunciation. With Sullivan's help, Helen, aged 65,438+08, was admitted to Cambridge Women's College and then entered Harvard University. Since then, she has devoted her life to education, charity and literature.
19 16, Helen, 36, is still single. Love is a strange word to her. She doesn't know which man in this world will really love her.
This summer, Helen's secretary, Polly Thomas, asked for leave to visit relatives in Scotland. Sullivan is in poor health, so she can't stay with her all the time. Helen had to hire a temporary secretary to help her with her daily work. In this way, Peter Fagan came into her life.
That night, Helen and Miss Sullivan were sitting on the porch, waiting for Peter from Boston.
Suddenly, when Miss Sullivan held her hand, Helen felt a little change. "He's here. His hair is black and his fingers are long. He is looking around with a brown notebook in one hand and a cigarette in the other. " Miss Sullivan wrote her first impression of Peter in Helen's hand. Writing with the palm of your hand is their way of communication. Although Helen can't see Peter, she can still feel his breathing approaching.
"He is wearing a white shirt, casually draped his jacket over his shoulders, and his eyes are brown …" Miss Sullivan continued to write on Helen's hand. Peter's outline slowly came to Helen's mind.
"Is he handsome?" Helen asked Miss Sullivan nervously.
"Thank god you can't see him. He is too handsome to face up to. " A joke made Helen laugh. Helen combed her hair a little nervously and sat up straight-she always wanted to make a good first impression.
Peter's breath is getting closer and closer, and Helen feels the sun slowly covering her, with the fresh smell of grass and rain. She stood up and Peter shook her hand politely.
Helen put her finger on his throat and felt his voice: "Miss Keller, nice to meet you." Helen replied politely, "Nice to meet you, too."
He speaks a little fast, and Helen has some difficulty in listening. Perhaps because he felt Helen's emotions, Peter gradually slowed down his speech. Although only 29 years old, she is mature and steady, and pays great attention to other people's feelings. In this way, Peter became Helen's right-hand man, and they worked together all day. As time went on, strange feelings sprouted in Helen's heart, and she was immersed in sweet thoughts every minute.
Soon, Miss Sullivan got tuberculosis, and Helen had to let her go to Puerto Rico to rest for a while. Helen was very sad the day she saw the teacher off. This is the first time that Miss Sullivan has left her. Helen has been with her since she was 6 years old. Leaving Sullivan, she will fall back into the sea of silence of loneliness and loss. ...
The next day, Helen wrote in a letter to Sullivan: "When we walked to the station, I suddenly felt very lonely and felt inexplicable fear."
Seeing Helen so sad, Peter can't bear to, and often tries to play with her. Sometimes they walk in the Woods and feel the touch of the wind. Sometimes they row boats on the lake and feel the warmth of the sun. When Peter knew that Helen liked riding a bicycle, he specially found a bicycle to carry her through the street ... with inseparable company, let the flowers of love bloom quietly in their hearts.
A beautiful marriage out of reach.
Helen will always remember that morning. As usual, Helen sat alone in the study reading a book. Suddenly, she felt a breeze and the door seemed to be gently pushed open. Peter's breath approached slowly, and Helen reached out and took Peter's hand. Peter's hands were slightly sweaty, as if he had something to say.
Finally, Peter took a deep breath and wrote softly in her hand: "Helen, I love you, marry me!" " "
Is he proposing to himself? Helen can't believe that she can't see colorful colors and hear any sound, and she is still qualified to love.
Seeing that she didn't respond, Peter was a little anxious. He took her hand and continued to explain: "I really love you, and I love your kindness, wisdom and strength. You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen ... "
At that moment, Helen remembered that the doctor had said to her, "When someone knocks on your door, don't hesitate, don't sell yourself short, and don't refuse because you are disabled." . Although you are blind and deaf in both ears, it is not hereditary, so it will not be passed on to future generations. You have the right to love. "
Helen finally knew the irresistible power of love. She held Peter's hand tightly. In this way, they fell in love secretly, and began to secretly plan the wedding, dreaming that the married life was sweet. They submitted their marriage application to the local government, and waited sweetly and anxiously for the approval of the municipal government.
One morning, Helen got up as usual. Suddenly the door was pushed open and Helen felt her mother coming towards her quickly. She threw something on the table and Helen reached out to touch it. That's a newspaper. Then, mother angrily wrote on her hand: "Why don't we know about your marriage?"
Mother has never been so angry. In desperation, Helen denied getting married. This is the first time she has lied to her mother.
It turned out that a reporter in Boston got the grapevine that Helen was going to marry Peter, a temporary assistant, so he used a whole front page report and published their marriage application in the most conspicuous position.
"You can't marry him, your reputation and honor will be used by him. He can't really love you. You see, he didn't tell me such an important thing as marrying Miss Sullivan. " These words of mother burst the bubble of happiness in Helen's heart.
Mother immediately fired Peter Fagan and secretly sent Helen to her sister's house. By this time, my sister Midlet had heard about it. Helen thinks that her younger sister of the same age can understand herself, but she also thinks that little Peter can't take good care of her sister-who can believe that a handsome young man will really fall in love with a blind and deaf middle-aged woman?
At this time, Sullivan, a Puerto Rican teacher, also wrote a letter. Like everyone else, she doesn't think Peter can bring happiness to Helen.
It was Helen Keller's most helpless moment. After losing contact with Peter, she thought about him all the time. She doesn't know that Peter is looking for her all over the world.
Finally, Helen received a letter. It was Peter's letter, saying that he was in Salibo town, not far from her, and wanted to elope with her, and then they secretly got a marriage license. 19 17 February 12 at midnight, he will wait for her under the big tree in her backyard.
Helen was both excited and nervous because of those uneven and special handwriting. She immediately set about packing and counted the slowly passing time.
At midnight on the appointed day, everyone fell asleep, and Helen quietly dragged her luggage out to the appointed place. Peter hasn't come yet, and there is silence around, but the gentle wind fills her heart with sweetness.
But Peter didn't appear until dawn. Helen's happy heart gradually despaired.
When my sister found her under the tree, Helen had no strength to speak. She began to reflect on the frustration of her mother, sister and teacher Sullivan. In the days that followed, she never mentioned Peter again and chose not to marry for life.
It was not until Helen died that my sister revealed to the media that this letter was written by her mother, and she planned a virtual agreement, which completely disappointed Helen with Peter.
What Helen doesn't know is that Peter has never been married because of love. He has been living in a small town in Puerto Rico, where he and Helen agreed to grow old together. ...
The Story and Feeling of Helen Keller
Helen Keller is a true and touching story. I hold it, and my heart can't be calm for a long time, with endless aftertaste.
This paper describes the life of Helen Keller, an American blind and deaf woman writer. At the age of one, she lost her sight and hearing due to illness, but Helen didn't give in to fate. With the help of the teacher, she learned to speak. At the age of 24, she devoted herself to the welfare of the blind and deaf people in the world with excellent results and lifelong energy.
Helen Keller, a disabled person has made great contributions to society, but we healthy people sometimes waste time. Helen Keller's life taught us to cherish time and this happy life.
Helen Keller's life is like Stephen Hawking's life. Hawking suffered from Luger's disease when he was 2 1 year old, which made him have only three fingers moving all over his body. 1985, he lost the ability to speak because of surgery, but he was physically disabled and determined, and became an expert and writer in physics, cosmology, mathematics, thought and philosophy. He has written books such as A Brief History of Time. Although Hawking is disabled, he put forward the theory that black holes can emit radiation. And this is precisely because he is not wasting time all day, but studying the universe.
What about me? Things are always dragging their feet, just trying to get through today quickly. I remember once, when I finished my summer homework, my pen was writing, but my heart drifted, which led to poor quality of my homework. Even after several times, I just sat there staring blankly, sleeping and playing computer, feeling groggy all day and doing things slowly. It took me 10 hours to finish my homework. Doing it, I will suddenly find that I haven't finished my homework all morning. ...
Helen Keller said, "If you were blind tomorrow, what would you do today?" This makes me think that we should cherish the present time and happy life, and don't waste our time. How should we treat our life? Helen Keller's life is the best answer.