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6. MY TEACHER

  Helen Keller

About the author:

Helen Adams Keller, the American author, political  activist and a lecturer was born on June 27 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama to Captain Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller. In 1882,when she was 19 months old, she was stricken by an illness that left her blind and deaf. In 1886, according to the advice of an ENT specialist her parents contacted Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at that time. Bell advised them to contact Perkins Institute for the Blind. The director of the institute, asked former student Anne Sullivan, to become Helen Keller's instructor. That was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship with her teacher. Anne Sullivan, came rd to her house on March 3 , 1887 and helped her make tremendous progress with her ability to communicate.In May, 1888, Helen Keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind.In 1894, Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller moved to New York to attend Humason School for the Deaf and Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts and Keller entered the Cambridge School for Young Ladies to prepare for Radcliffe College. She entered Radcliffe in 1900 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1904 at the ageof 24, becoming the first deaf-blind person to do so. In 1903, the 22 year old Keller got her autobiography, The Story of My Life published. Her other published works include Optimism, The World I Live In (1908); The Song of the Stone Wall; Out of the Dark(1913); My Religion(1927); Midstream—My Later Life; Peace at Eventide; Helen Keller in Scotland; Helen Keller's Journal; Let Us Have Faith; Teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy; and The Open Door. She wrote a total of 12 books and got them all published. In addition, she was a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers.

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Short Answer Questions :

1. Which according to Helen Keller was the most important day of her life?

According to Helen Keller the most important day  of her  life was the one on which her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to her.

2. When did Helen Keller meet her teacher for the first time?

Helen Keller met her teacher for the first time on  the third of March, 1887, three months before she was seven years old.

3. How old was Helen Keller when she met her teacher for the first time?

When she met her teacher for the first time Helen Keller was 6 years and nine months old.

4. Anne Mansfield Sullivan, was the name of Helen Keller's teacher.

5. What made Helen Keller feel that something unusual was going to happen? How did she react?

Helen Keller felt that something unusual was going to happen from her mother's signs and from the hurrying to and fro in the house .She  went to the door and waited on the steps and  did not know what the future held of marvel or surprise for her. 

6. What does Helen compare her life with?

Helen compares her life with a ship in dense fog, tense and anxious, groping her way towards the shore with plummet and sounding-line.She was like that ship but without a compass or sounding line,and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was. 

7. "Light! give me light!"was the wordless cry of Helen's soul.

8. When Helen heard footsteps, she stretched out her hands thinking it was her

i. Father

ii. Teacher

iii. Mother

9. What was the purpose of the arrival of the person who held Helen in her arms?

The purpose of the arrival of the person who held Helen in her arms was to reveal all things to her, and, more than all things else, to love her.

10. What did the teacher give her the day after she came? Who had sent it?

The morning after her teacher came ,she led her into her room and gave her a doll. The little blind children at the Perkins Institution had sent it for her.

11. Laura Bridgman had dressed the doll.

12. Why was Helen flushed with childish pleasure and pride? How does she express it?

When Helen had played with the doll for a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into her hand the word "d-o-l-l." She  was at once interested in that finger play and tried to imitate it. When she finally succeeded in making the letters correctly she was flushed with childish pleasure and pride. and she expressed it by running downstairs to her mother and held up her hand and made the letters for doll.

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13. What was the uncomprehending way in which Helen learnt to spell?

Helen was simply making her fingers go in monkey-like imitation. In the days that followed she learned to spell in this uncomprehending way a great many words.

14. The spelling d-o-l-l applied to both. What did the teacher mean by “both”?

One day, while she was playing with her new doll, Miss Sullivan put her big  rag doll into her lap also, spelled "d-o-l-l" and tried to make her understand that "d-o-l-l" applied to both.

15. Why did Helen dash the doll upon the floor? How did she feel about her action?

When Miss Sullivan tried to impress upon Helen that "m-u-g" was mug and that "w-a-t-e-r" was water, she  persisted in confounding the two. In despair teacher had dropped the subject for the time, only to renew it at the first opportunity. Helen became impatient at her repeated attempts and, seizing the new doll, she dashed it upon the floor. 

She was keenly delighted when she felt the fragments of the broken doll at her feet. Neither sorrow nor regret followed her passionate outburst.

16. What was the well-house covered with?

The well house was covered with the fragrance of the honeysuckle, with which it was covered.

17. When did the narrator feel repentance and sorrow?

When the mystery of language was revealed to her she  saw everything with the strange, new sight that had come to her. Then that day on entering the door she remembered the doll she had broken.Then her eyes filled with tears; for she  realized what she had done, and for the first time she felt repentance and sorrow.

18. What were some of the first few words that Helen learnt on the eventful day?

On that eventful day some of the first few words that Helen learnt were mother, father, sister and teacher.Those were  the words that were to make the world blossom for her.

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Paragraph answer questions :

1. Why does Helen refer to the day as an eventful one?

Helen refers to the day as an eventful one because it was the most important day of her life when her teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to her to reveal all things to her, and, more than all things else, to love her.Before that day her life was like that of a ship in dense fog  but without a compass or sounding line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was. The teacher revealed to her the mystery of language and made her understand that everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought.She understood from her teacher how to spell water and what water means.That living word awakened her  soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free.

As she returned to the house from the well-house understanding the meaning of "water ", every object which she touched seemed to quiver with life. That was because she saw everything with the strange, new sight that had come to her. She earned a great many new words that day. Even though she did not remember what they all were; she knew that mother, father, sister, teacher were among those words that were to make the world blossom for her . As she laid in her crib at the close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought her, and for the first time in her life  longed for a new day to come.

2. How did the introduction of the word "water" awaken Helen Keller's soul?

Miss Sullivan tried to impress upon Helen that  "m-u-g" is mug and that "w-a-t-e-r" is water, but she persisted in confounding the two.Then the teacher  drops the topic and later  takes her to the well house, where someone was drawing water and  placed her hand under the spout and as the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water,first slowly, then rapidly. She stood still, her whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly she felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten, a thrill of returning thought and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to her. She knew then that "w-a-t-e-r" meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over her hand.That living word awakened her soul, gave it light, hope, joy,  and set it free.

3. What transformation took place in the narrator after her visit to the well-house? What did she do on entering the house?(Note: First half of the question same as previous question's answer)

Miss Sullivan tried to impress upon Helen that  "m-u-g" was mug and that "w-a-t-e-r" was water, but she persisted in confounding the two.Then the teacher  drops the topic and later  takes her to the well house, where someone was drawing water and  placed her hand under the spout and as the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water,first slowly, then rapidly. She stood still, her whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly she felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten, a thrill of returning thought and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to her. She knew then that "w-a-t-e-r" meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over her hand.That living word awakened her soul, gave it light, hope, joy,  and set it free.

As they returned to the house, every object which she touched seemed to quiver with life. That was because she saw everything with the strange, new sight that had come to her. On entering the door she remembered the doll she had broken. She felt her way to the hearth and picked up the pieces and tried vainly to put them together. Then her eyes filled with tears, for she realized what she had done, and for the first time she felt repentance and sorrow.

4. What incident led the narrator to dash her new doll to the floor that resulted in its breaking into pieces? What were her feelings then?

Miss Sullivan tried to impress upon Helen that  "m-u-g" was mug and that "w-a-t-e-r" was water, but she persisted in confounding the two.In despair she had dropped the subject for the time, only to renew it at the first opportunity. Helen became impatient at her repeated attempts and, seizing the new doll, she dashed it upon the floor that resulted in its breaking into pieces.

Helen was keenly delighted when she felt the fragments of the broken doll at her feet. Neither sorrow nor regret followed her passionate outburst. She had not loved the doll. In the still, dark world in which she lived there was no strong sentiment or tenderness. She felt her teacher sweep the fragments to one side of the hearth, and she had a sense of satisfaction that the cause of her discomfort was removed.

5. How was the summer of 1887 special for Helen? How did Helen learn the joy of nature?

The summer of 1987 was special for Helen as it was at that time her teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to her to reveal all things to her, and, more than all things else, to love her .It was the third of March, 1887, three months before she was seven years old her teacher came to her house . Before that day, her life was like that of a ship in dense fog  but without a compass or sounding line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour.On that eventful day she felt that something unusual was going to happen from her mother's signs and from the hurrying to and fro in the house .She  went to the door and waited on the steps.So she went to the door and waited on the steps. The afternoon sun penetrated the mass of honeysuckle that covered the porch, and was falling on her upturned face. Her fingers lingered almost unconsciously on the familiar leaves and blossoms which had just come forth to greet the sweet southern spring. She did not know what the future held of marvel or surprise for her.  The teacher revealed to her the mystery of language and made her understand that everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought.She understood from her teacher how to spell water and what water means.That living word awakened her  soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free.As she returned to the house from the well-house understanding the meaning of "water ", every object which she touched seemed to quiver with life. That was because she saw everything with the strange, new sight that had come to her. 

Before her teacher came into her life she used to enjoy the nature without understanding the meaning of words. Helen used to linger her fingers almost unconsciously on the familiar leaves and blossoms which had just come forth to greet the sweet southern spring.

After learning a great many new words on  that eventful day  though she did not remember what they all were; she knew that mother, father, sister, teacher were among those words that were to make the world blossom for her . As she laid in her crib at the close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought her, and for the first time in her life  longed for a new day to come.

6. During the first few months after her teacher's arrival, how did Helen get to know about many things around her and how did she communicate with the others?

The morning after her teacher came she led her into her room and gave her a doll. The little blind children at the Perkins Institution had sent it for her.When she had played with it a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into her hand the word "d-o-l-l." When she finally succeeded in making the letters correctly she was flushed with childish pleasure and pride.Running downstairs to her mother she held up her hand and made the letters for doll. 

In the days that followed she learned to spell in this uncomprehending way a great many words, like pin, hat, cup and a few verbs like sit, stand and walk. But her teacher had been with her several weeks before she understood that everything had a name. One day, while she was playing with her new doll, Miss Sullivan put her big rag doll also  into her lap and, spelled "d-o-l-l" and tried to make her understand that "d-o-l-l" applied to both. Earlier in the day they had  a tussle over the words "m-u-g" and "w-a-t-e-r." Miss Sullivan had tried to impress it upon her that "m-u-g" is mug and that "w-a-t-e-r" is water, but she persisted in confounding the two. In despair she had dropped the subject for the time,  Helen became impatient at her repeated attempts and, seizing the new doll, she dashed it upon the floor. 

She was keenly delighted when she felt the fragments of the broken doll at her feet. Neither sorrow nor regret followed her passionate outburst as she did not loved that doll.The teacher then brought her hat, and she knew that she was going out into the warm sunshine.  They went to the well-house,and someone was drawing water and her teacher placed her hand under the spout. As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly. Suddenly she felt a misty consciousness and the mystery of language was revealed to her.She knew then that "w-a-t-e-r" meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over her hand.

That living word awakened her soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free .Later when she returned home that day, seeing the broken doll she felt repentance and sorrow. Helen learned a great many new words that day. Though she was not remembering what they all were; but she did knew that mother, father, sister, teacher were among them,the words that were to make the world blossom for her, It would have been difficult to find a happier child than she was, as she laid in her crib at the close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought her, and for the first time she longed for a new day to come.

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