The Story of My Life

Srishti Ghosh

3^rd Period/L.A.

10/20/10

Overall Thoughts in First 6 Chapters

The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

I am completely speechless by how well Helen Keller writes. I am amazed that she could write at all. I predict that Helen Keller had some help writing the book because some of the words she uses are so high quality that I don’t think she just knew them. She probably asked someone she was good friends with to help her phrase some of the sentences. Her writing surpasses anything I would ever be able to write if I was deaf and blind. In fact it seems Helen intelligence exceeded many kids of her age even when at younger ages. Some of the things she figured out how to do in her younger year of darkness and silence, I didn’t figure out until I was far older. I wonder how her mother told her to thing as a young child before her teacher came. I think the whole story shows an example of a miracle from the fact that she survived to the fact that she learned to talk. I can read this book fairly quickly because the wording, although high level, does not complicate the text. I connect with Helen in a really weird way because when her mother gives birth to her younger sister she feels envious but I never felt any envy towards my brother. It reminds me of this story I read when at a younger age about a girl hating her new sister.