How Miss Sullivan Changed Hellen Keller's Life

All hope must be lost in a world full of noiseless features and in which the world has no detail nor meaning but just black pixels all around. That is what was thought by the young Hellen Keller, who had been diagnosed with a disease that gave her the disadvantage of becoming blind, deaf, and mute. In the excerpt,” The Most Important Day,” by Hellen Keller, she talks about how her life became like a flower blossoming after meeting her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, who taught her the basics of life. According to the excerpt, events have led to show that ever since meeting Sullivan, Keller’s life will forever be changed. Sullivan was able to teach Kellen that everything around them has a word and a meaning.

Beginning with the opening sentence, Steinbeck conveys a somber tone through the description of the setting hanging above the farm in The Chrysanthemums. “The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world” (Steinbeck, John uhhhh boneless pizza). As the female protagonist in a historically accurate story in the late 1930s, Elisa is condemned to living in a sort of confinement from the outside world, seeing as her husband would do all of the business on the farm. She has something in common with the Salinas Valley, as she too is closed off from the sky and from all the rest of the world under the cloak of her married name. Accompanying the isolation from the outside world is a dismal depression, which can be transcribed as a “high grey-flannel fog” or an overcast sky to mimic the solemn feeling. Elisa’s attempt to stave off this depression of not being able to live her best life can be noticed as she gives her utmost attention to her flowers.

“All day yesterday they had read in class about the sun. About how like a lemon it was, and how hot. And they had written small stories or essays or poems about it:I think the sun is a flower/That blooms for just one hour. That was Margot’s poem, read in a quiet voice in the still classroom while the rain was falling outside. "Aw, you didn’t write that!"

This moment is incredibly significant for both Janie and the reader. Janie experiences her first feelings of desire for emotional freedom, and the event functions as a starting point for her growth during the novel. The language used here is vivid and sensual. The imagery of the bright blossoms, flowing wind, and lively spring activity is related to the awakening of passion in Janie. This makes for an incredibly effective passage in the novel, and it allows readers to better understand Janie’s motives and intentions.

In addition, the sunlight in the forest represents how the world takes a liking to certain people. The sunlight does not embrace Hester, but it does Pearl. The Scarlet Letter makes a remark about this, saying, “‘Mother,’ said little Pearl, ‘the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom’” (Hawthorne 175).

On this summer day we find out that the dressmaking shop owner stole a hundred and fifty thousand dollars from clients, workers, and friends, and ran off. Here the weather is used to describe how he feels. The “white-hot sunshine” is used to portray the anger and heat he feels for the woman in the following scene when the narrator finds out the lady stole the money. This goes on with the narrator going off to the roof where “the sky above was a soft quiet blue” (27), thinking about the impact the women created on him, his family, and community. The soft quiet blue here is used to describe his emotions as his anguish dematerializes and his emotions clear up to reveal the sorrow he now feels towards the woman. The narrator then uses the mist and clouds to describe the sadness he displayed that night when he realizes that he had been deluded, “The scene in front of me got misty, and I discovered that my eyes were filled with tears”

Even when there is this beautiful garden, it is hard to see it as beautiful. This theme is created through the elaborate descriptions of the beautiful flowers despite the raging war everywhere else in the world. This passage creates the illusion of beauty in the world when nothing is truly beautiful elsewhere. The speaker holds on to the beauty of these flowers and questions how something so beautiful could occur during something that is so horrible for her. This passage exemplifies Daisy finding something good out of this time. There is a shift of mood in this passage. The word choice began with “warm, bloom, great, frilled” these words created an enchanted mood, then there was a transition of mood. In the second part, the word choice was “sharp, forced, obscene, splayed, passion, rage, wasn’t beauty” (183), this shifted the mood from enchanted to despairing. This indicates that the speaker saw beauty in the flowers, but gradually she realized what was happening around her. The passion and rage that she sees in the garden relates back to what is happening in her life. There is passion in her for Edmond and rage in knowing she can’t see him and never may

Brought to attention in the forest, Pearl’s free spirit awakens while the sun is glistening on her. Rationalizing the invitation of the forest, the “bright-appareled vision” of the sunlight enumerates the bliss of freedom (184). Accentuating Pearl’s best side, the sunlight in the forest weaves her “now like a child’s spirit,” depicting the playful invitation the forest sunlight encourages (184). The secrecy of the forest provides joy whenever the sunlight’s “splendor went and came again” for Pearl, emphasizing the solace privacy the sunlight portrays (184). Pearl, hidden from the town’s shame, only experiences the lively forest sunlight, suggesting Hawthorne’s sunlight symbolization is strictly freeing in the forest, due to the expulsion of law and the townspeople’s

Through writing, Keller portrays her physical disabilities as a challenge she must overcome; Keller writes at a high academic level which proves to her audience that her external appearance does not reflect her mental ability.

On the other hand, the open window that Mrs. Mallard looked out of was the representation of her freedom to starting a new life. She is was excited to see her freedom out the window she could smell,” the delicious breath of rain”(720). Which symbolic to the calming sensation knowing soon the sunshine will come. She officially had control of what she wanted in life so she felt as if, “Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own”(721). The spring is a representation of how beautiful change is and how warm weather brings happiness. Also, is a representation of new life that also comes out during the spring time. The window is providing Mrs. Mallard with a dream of her own her road to official independence.”There would be no one to live for her during those

Imagine being confined to a windowless, pitch-black room. No doors for light to seep in; no spatial clues at all except a thump in the face once you reach the other side of the room. On top of that, there’s no sound. There’s nothing there to make sound, but there is a vague understanding that other warm-bodied creatures are in the room, too. This must have been what Helen Adams Keller’s life as a blind and deaf person was like. However, none of it stopped her from becoming one of the most celebrated persons with disabilities the world has ever known.

“All though the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it” - Helen Keller. Although Helen Keller was deaf and blind, that didn’t stop her from doing what she was meant to do. She bans the fact that she ever went deaf and blind, and with her resilience she keeps on going with her life, and makes history. Helen Adams Keller is not only very inspiring and brave, she was also amazingly successful and changed the world. If you want to hear more about the amazing life of Helen Keller, then I would recommend you keep on reading.

How Helen Keller positively changed the world “True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” (Helen Keller) Helen Keller gained a purpose at an early age in part to living with being both blind and deaf since one and a half years of age. This amazing woman proved anyone despite of the challenges they have can achieve outstanding things. Keller positively changed the world in many ways by using her disabilities to create awareness for others with blind and deafness throughout her life.

At the age of 19 months Helen Keller became sick and lost her sight and hearing. When she started to grow up it was difficult for her because she was unable to communicate. A consequence of this was that she threw many tantrums to express herself. But then came along Anne Sullivan who taught Helen sign language and her whole world opened up from there. She went on to do great things. From her achievements and speeches toward the disabled community. Helen Keller made a lasting impact on the world.

This first sentence tells the reader that Keller cherished her teacher. It’s the most important day because her teacher changed her life; she helped her understand the world in a way she never would have experienced without her.