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Hellen Keller

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Meeting Sullivan was life-changing for Hellen Keller because she got to experience new emotions, learn new things, and go through lots of jolly emotions throughout and some sorrow. She learned unfamiliar words throughout the excerpt and experienced new emotions based on her actions. Hellen Keller is a child that is blind and dying, but she makes a way. Keller struggles at first learning unfamiliar words, but she gets used to them as she has more practice and feeling of the word. When she learned the unfamiliar words, she was filled with joy. Paragraph 5 states “Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word “d-o-l-l.” I was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it. When I finally succeeded in making the letters correctly, I was flushed with childish pleasure and pride.” This proves that when …show more content…

Paragraph 6 says “Earlier in the day we had a tussle over the words “m-u-g" and “w-a-t-e-r.”... but I persisted in confounding the two. I became impatient at her repeated attempts and, seizing the new doll, I dashed it upon the floor. I was keenly delighted to hear from you. "She gets a little frustrated that she can't get the two words right, so she throws the doll in frustration but becomes delighted because of the relief proving she is going through a series of emotions as she learns. Later in the excerpt Keller claims that every object seemed to quiver with life, giving her a strange but nice feeling. “On entering the door, I remember the doll I had broken. I felt my way to the hearth and picked up the pieces. I tried vainly to put them together. Then my eyes filled with tears; for I realized what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow. "This can prove that even though Keller was frustrated at the time of learning, she needed time to value the work she has done and her improving, causing her to experience a bit of

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