HELEN KELLER

 An accomplished writer, political activist, tireless pioneer of women’s

rights, birth control, and many civil battles that brought her into contact

with presidents, statesmen, and dignitaries around the world, Helen

Keller born June 27, 1880, and died June 1, 1968 was a living example of

how an insurmountable obstacle can be transformed into a “wonderful

good”. “The best and most beautiful things can neither be seen nor heard,

but felt in the heart”, Hellen Keller would go so far as to write in one of

her books. She was guided to the light by Anne Suvillan, the teacher who

took her by the hand when she was still a child and who remained with

her for over forty years. Deaf-blind from an inless contracted when she

was 19 months old, little Helen born on June 27 , 1880 grew up spoiled

and wild on her parents in Alabama. She was a sharp child but her

relationship with the world was limited to a few signs that only her

daughter from the cook understood , in addittion to the bellowing that

the family struggled to interpret, and the subsequent fits of anger at not

being understood. Helen began to devote every minute of her existence

to the redemption of the blind and deaf , in 1948 she was sent to Japan as

America’s first goodwill ambassador. a died at her home in Arcan Ridge,

Connecticut on June 1, 1968 , a few weeks before her 88th birthday.

  

Article by Sofia Ruffinella