New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.

            

             The thought of being blind and/or deaf is a hard concept to imagine. Imagine not knowing what is really going on around you.

             You know that there are things, or people, similar to yourself in the world, but you don't know what there actual name is. Not knowing.

             the meaning of words, not being able to hear sounds or not having the ability to see things would drive a person, that had at one time.

             possessed these abilities, insane. Helen Keller is an amazing person because she had to deal with the frustration of not knowing anything .

             and the aggravation of having to learn everything, when it did not seem to have a connection to things in the world. She was able to.

             overcome these obstacles and use her new discovery to fight for racial, sexual, and handicap equality. Helen Keller went through life with.

             one philosophy and saying, "Literature is my utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised." .

             Helen Keller was born a normal child in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880, the daughter of Caption Arthur H. Keller and.

             Kate Adams Keller. At the age of six months she could say, " How d'ye" and "tea" and when she was one years old she could talk. .

             She enjoyed flowers, playing in the sun and listening to the birds sing. It was not until February 1882 when Helen she acquired a.

             brain fever that she was left blind and deaf. Her sickness affected her unconsciousness and she forgot everything that she had learned.

             or had done in her life. While she grew up she learned to do tiny errands, but she also realized that something was missing in her life. .

             She later wrote:.

             Sometimes, I stood between two persons who were conversing and touched their lips. I could not understand, I was vexed. .

             I moved my lips frantically without result. This made me so angry at times that I kicked and screamed until I was exhausted. .

             With the help of Annie Sullivan, a student to Boston's Perkins Institute for the Blind who went to live with the Keller family in.