Helen believes that the tragedy of vision and hearing loss often occurs in families that cannot treat their children in time because of poverty. In order to eliminate the evil phenomenon caused by social inequality, Helen joined the National Socialist Party of the United States and the International Federation of Industrial Workers (IWW) and became a radical socialist. I have written two articles about how I became a socialist [1] and why I joined IWW [2] to illustrate my motivation. However, western history textbooks often praise the story of Helen Keller's struggle with illness in her early years, but the fact that she became a socialist as an adult is deliberately ignored. I mentioned this problem in the book "Lies told by the teacher-mistakes made in American history textbooks" [3].
Helen Keller wrote 14 works in her life. My life is her first novel. As soon as the work is published; It immediately caused a sensation in the United States and was called "an unparalleled masterpiece in the history of world literature". More than 0/00 editions of/kloc have been published, which has a great influence in the world. This book is compiled by Helen Keller's My Life, out of the dark and Teacher, and the famous essay "If you give me three days of light" published by Atlantic Monthly. This paper comprehensively and systematically introduces Helen Keller's rich, vivid, true and great life, and many words are the first time to meet readers in China. "If you give me three days of light" is the eighth lesson in the fifth grade and the ninth lesson in the sixth grade of Jiangsu Education Publishing House. "My Teacher" was selected as the first-year textbook of Beijing Normal University, and "Rebuilding Life" was selected as the fifth lesson of the second volume of the eighth grade of People's Education Publishing House.
In the 20th century, a unique individual life shocked the world in her brave way. She-Helen Keller, a woman who lives in darkness but brings light to mankind, has spent 88 spring and autumn years of her life, but has survived 87 years of loneliness without light, silence and words.
However, it is such a claustrophobic person who graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University. He spent all his life running around and set up a charity to benefit the disabled, and was selected as one of the top ten hero idols in the 20th century in America by Time magazine.
Creating this miracle depends on an indomitable heart. Helen accepted the challenge of life, embraced the world with love, faced difficulties with amazing perseverance, finally found the bright side of life in the dark, and finally extended her loving hands to the world. Helen Keller (June 27th 1 880-65438+June10968) is a famous blind and deaf woman writer and speaker in the 20th century in America. With a strong will, she was admitted to Radcliffe College of Harvard University, became the first blind and deaf person in the world to complete her college education, and was selected by Time magazine in the United States.
If you give me three days of light is Helen Keller's masterpiece of prose. From the perspective of a weak woman who is physically disabled and determined, she warned healthy people to cherish life and cherish everything given by the creator. Besides, my life story is included in this book.
Miss Sullivan and Helen Keller hit it off. They got along well within a few days of knowing each other, and Helen Keller also learned to read from Miss Sullivan.
One day, the teacher wrote the words' water' and' water' on Helen Keller's palm. Somehow, Helen Keller couldn't write it down. The teacher knows where Helen Keller's difficulties lie. She took Helen Keller to the fountain and asked her to put her little hand under the fountain and let the cool spring water spill on her hand. Then, Teacher Sullivan wrote the words "water" and "water" on Helen Keller's palm, and Helen Keller will never be confused again. Helen later recalled: "Somehow, the secret of language was suddenly revealed, and I finally knew that water was a substance that flowed through my palm." The word "drink" awakened my soul and gave me light, hope and happiness.
However, Miss Sullivan thinks that just knowing how to read without speaking is still inconvenient for communication. Helen Keller, however, was deaf and blind since she was a child, unable to hear other people's voices or see their mouths. Therefore, although she is not dumb, she can't speak.
In order to overcome this difficulty, Miss Sullivan found an expert for Helen Keller, who taught her to feel the change of mouth shape when others spoke with her hands, and to learn pronunciation through the difference between inhaling and exhaling through the nasal cavity. Of course, it wasn't easy, but Helen Keller did it. Helen Keller, a blind writer, not only broke through the functional barriers and learned to speak, but also devoted her life to giving speeches to disabled people everywhere, encouraging them to affirm themselves and aspire to be a disabled person. Helen Keller's love not only gives the disabled full confidence, but also inspires people all over the world to face up to the welfare of the disabled and establish service institutions to help them live a healthy and happy life.
Helen Keller's masterpiece "If Give Me Three Days of Light", from the perspective of a weak woman with physical disability and firm will, warns the able-bodied people to cherish life and everything given by the creator. In addition, The Story of My Life included in this book is an autobiographical work of Helen Keller, which is regarded as "an unparalleled masterpiece in the history of world literature".
1968, Helen died at the age of 89. She devoted her life's service to the disabled people all over the world. She wrote many books and her story was made into a movie. Teacher Sullivan gave her the most precious love. She spread this love to all the unfortunate people and brought them hope. After her death, because of her strong will and outstanding contribution, people all over the world were moved to hold activities to commemorate her.
Helen Keller was blind and deaf due to illness since childhood, but she made unremitting efforts to overcome great difficulties and completed her college studies. He wrote more than a dozen works in his life and devoted himself to social activities to help disabled children, protect women's rights and interests and strive for racial equality. 1964 won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her deeds have been made into movies twice.
On Helen Keller
What would I think if I stood at the end of my life and the spark of my life was about to go out? How? You will also sigh that life is short and fragile, and regret not cherishing it? Make good use of your eyes as if you would be blind tomorrow. Listen to the beauty of music, listen to the songs of birds, and listen to the powerful tunes of the orchestra, as if you will be deaf tomorrow. Touch whatever you want, as if your touch will decline tomorrow. Smell the fragrance of all the flowers and taste every mouthful, as if you can't smell or taste it tomorrow. People! Why do you always have to wait until you lose it before you regret it? Why are we always so greedy, seldom cherish what we have, but long for what we don't have! Perhaps, you always think that God has given us these beautiful things, even life, for granted. But have you ever thought, when one day, what you have, even your life, will be lost, what will you do, regret or give up on yourself? If so, it would be sad. Yes, I can't make the same mistakes as others. I would rather cherish them now. 1On the afternoon of June, 968, Helen Keller died in her sleep at the age of 89. Keller was deaf and blind at 18 months after birth, but miraculously lived his life.
Helen's misfortune
A baby girl was born in Tuscany, northern Alabama. This is Helen Keller. She is good at listening and articulate, and her parents expect her to be a musician! However, when she was one and a half years old, a serious illness (scarlet fever) robbed her of her hearing and vision, and then she lost her language expression ability, making her feel as if she were in a black prison. When she was five years old, she added another sister to her family: Midlet. Helen can't eat cookies at once every time. When she put the doll in the cradle, there was something soft in it. Every time she wants to climb on her mother's knee, that soft thing is on it again. Once, she knocked over her sister's cradle. If her mother hadn't arrived in time, her sister might have died. But for all this, little Helen, who can't see or hear, has no regrets. Her temper is getting worse. Until miss Sullivan arrived.
■ "If you give me three days of light, the first person I want to see is my dear teacher."
At the age of one year and seven months, the sudden high fever caused by scarlet fever made Helen blind and deaf, and became a blind, deaf and dumb disabled person. Because the deaf-mute child can't get access to the correct information, the window of the soul is imprisoned, which leads to her bad temper and bad temper. At the age of seven, Anne Sullivan came to her side. She accompanied Helen for half a century and guided her out of endless darkness and loneliness with love and wisdom. The miracle created by Helen in her life is inseparable from this outstanding young educator for deaf children. Helen expressed her love for Miss Sullivan in her masterpiece If you give me three days of light: "If you give me three days of light, the first thing I see is my dear teacher."
On the day when Sullivan went to Helen's home as a tutor, she gave her a doll and slowly spelled the word "d-o-l-l" repeatedly with her finger on Helen's little hand. Helen became interested in this game at once. She imitated the teacher's actions again and again, and began to understand that everything in the world had its own name, and began to know that her name was "Helen Keller". Since then, Helen has learned and mastered French, German, Latin and Greek. Although deaf and blind, she can master five languages. Helen's success is called "the greatest achievement in the history of education".
Helen's "dumb" is caused by hearing loss, and her vocal cords are not damaged. At the age of ten, Helen began to learn to speak. Because she can't hear others and her own voice, she can only feel the movement of her throat and lips when the teacher pronounces, and then imitate and correct her voice thousands of times. When she first said "it's warm" like a normal person, both she and Sullivan realized that there was no insurmountable difficulty in the face of their tenacious perseverance. In Helen's life, she even took traveling around the world as an important part of her career.
Besides reading, she also likes riding, swimming and boating. She loves the performing arts of drama. With indomitable will, Helen learned to lip-read, and she could hear the short stories recited by Mark Twain with both hands, and completed her studies at Harvard University, a world-famous university, with excellent results. Reading not only makes Helen a knowledgeable scholar, but also cultivates her beautiful mind.
She likes to walk in the forest with the reins, and she also likes to go boating on a moonlit night, and she can tell her direction by the smell of water plants and water lilies. She also likes to ride a tandem bike for a ride, experience strength and speed in galloping, and like to fight wits and bravely in chess matches like boys ... She also loves nature. Although standing in front of Niagara Falls, she can't see the beauty of the world and hear the deafening roar, but she can appreciate the grandeur of the world's largest waterfall from the tremor of the air.
■ Mark Twain called her and Napoleon the two most outstanding figures in19th century.
After studying under the guidance of Sullivan for three months, Helen began to try to express her feelings in immature words and wrote the first letter in her life. From April 1902, with the help of Sullivan, she began to serialize her autobiography "The Story of My Life" in an American magazine. The following year, after its publication, it caused a sensation in the American literary world, and was even hailed as one of the two most important contributions of world literature from 65438 to 0902.
Many people don't believe that such beautiful words were written by a deaf and blind person. Although Mark Twain testified for this, it still can't calm people's doubts. However, Helen's achievements in her life give the best answer to this: she published 14 monographs in her life. In the past century, my life story has been translated into more than 50 languages and spread all over the world. Some experts once said that "in terms of literary achievements, it is not inferior to Rousseau's Confessions." If Helen's indomitable perseverance is inspiring, then her love is a precious treasure left to the world. When she first started studying with Sullivan, the clever little Helen easily learned to spell the names of many things around her, but she couldn't understand the very abstract noun "love". The young Sullivan turned her love into unparalleled patience, which enabled Helen to overcome the insurmountable obstacles in the study of blind and deaf students. While learning knowledge, little Helen also learned Sullivan's love. With this love, 10-year-old Helen successfully raised two years' education expenses for a five-year-old deaf-mute child. Maybe from then on, she made up her mind to help all the people in the world who need help like her.
She gives love to the world, and the world returns her lofty honor. 19 19, Helen's story was put on the screen by Hollywood and starred by herself. 1955, she received an honorary degree from Harvard University, becoming the first woman in history to receive this honor.
Since Helen was a child, every American president has invited her to visit the White House. She is also called by the government as one of the 30 outstanding people in the United States who have made outstanding contributions to the country. She won the "Freedom Award" personally awarded by the President of the United States and was praised as a senior citizen of the United States. From 65438 to 0959, the United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" campaign named after her around the world to help deaf children around the world. 1960, The Miracle Creator, which describes her growing experience, won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a movie. In the same year, on the occasion of Helen's eightieth birthday, the American Overseas Foundation for the Blind announced that it would award the International Helen Keller Award to those who have made outstanding contributions to the cause of the blind. 1 June, 9681day, 89-year-old Helen finished her legendary life.
In the process of human development, there are many valuable similarities. People of different colors and systems in the world can draw strength from Helen's story and inspire their fighting spirit. This is because the spirit of fighting against one's own weaknesses regardless of difficulties will always be the spiritual wealth of mankind.
Helen Keller's Persistent Memory Method
Helen Keller, a famous American writer and educator, was blind and deaf. When she was a child, she had scarlet fever, and her hearing and vision were taken away by a serious illness. Because of her deafness, she can't correct her pronunciation and speak vaguely. For a disabled person, the world is dark and silent. Without a strong memory, it is impossible to learn to read, write and speak. However, Helen Keller did not give in to fate. In order to pronounce clearly, she tied a small rope to a metal bar, held it in her mouth, and tied the other end to her hand, practicing her hands and mouth, writing a word and reading it out. In order to make the written words not crooked, she also made a wooden frame and assembled a pulley to practice writing. Of course, Miss Sullivan also made great contributions. She asked Helen to put her hand on her throat and let her feel the vibration of the sound to practice speaking. Helen divided her research into four steps:
Teach yourself for three hours every day. It takes two hours to memorize what you have learned. Take another hour to write down what you learned in three hours. The rest of the time, she practiced writing with what she had learned. In the process of learning and remembering, she has only one belief: she will be able to write down what she has learned and make herself a useful person. She insists on studying 10 hours every day. After a long period of hard study and indomitable confidence, she has mastered a lot of knowledge and can skillfully recite a lot of wonderful fragments of poems and famous works. Later, a 200,000-word book can be read in nine hours. She can recite it and tell the general idea of each chapter and section. In two hours, she can write wonderful sentences, paragraphs, chapters and her own unique views on the article. Helen's memory has greatly exceeded the normal level of ordinary people.
It is said that after hearing Helen Keller's story, a doctoral student studying at Harvard University was unconvinced and decided to have a competition with her. Under the strict time regulation and the teacher's supervision, they had three rounds of competitions, and the doctoral students took it. He took off the doctor's hat and put it on Helen's head respectfully. After studying, Helen broke through the barriers of literacy, language and writing, learned English, French, German, Latin and Greek, and published 14 book, which was praised and praised by all walks of life.
Mark Twain said: "/kloc-There were two great figures in the 9th century, one was Napoleon and the other was Helen Keller." From 65438 to 0959, the United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" campaign, calling on people all over the world to learn from her.
Helen Keller's famous saying
Darkness will make people cherish light more, and silence will make people love sound more.
Because in the long night of my life, the books I have read and the books read to me by others have become a great and bright lighthouse, revealing to me the deepest source of human life and human spirit.
The most beautiful things in the world are invisible and intangible, and you have to feel them with your heart.
Love is invisible, but you can feel the sweetness she brings.
I can feel so much happiness just by touching it, so if I can see it, I will find many better things!
The greatest disaster in life lies not in the trauma of the past, but in giving up the future.
Nothing can be achieved without hope.
All the atoms in my body are vibrators. I can guess what happens every day by the vibrations I feel everywhere in the house.
Use your eyes as if you would lose them tomorrow.
Death just moved from one room to another, but I may be different from others because I can see with my eyes in that new room.
We are obviously different. People who can see are different from those who can't see. It's not that the feeling is different, but that the method of using the feeling is different. It's just that the imagination and courage to look for wisdom outside the feeling are different.
No matter what environment you are in, you must persist in your efforts.
I study hard and hope to use it in the future and make contributions to society.
As long as it is really beneficial to society and I can do it, I will go all out.
My task is to practice, practice and practice again. Failure and fatigue often trip me up, but I have the courage to think that as long as I persist for a period of time, I can let the people I love see my progress.
For those who are above fate, confidence is like the master of life.
I feel everything in the world with my whole body and mind, and I can't stop for a moment. My life is full of vitality, just like those small insects who died early, squeezing their lives into one day. Life is either a bold adventure or nothing.
I only look at what I have, not what I don't have.
Forget that you are happy. Therefore, I will try to regard the light in others' eyes as my sun, the music in others' ears as my music, and the smile on others' lips as my happiness.
Although my body is not free, my heart is free. Let my heart go beyond my body to the crowd, immerse myself in joy and pursue a better life!
Live every day as if it were your last.
Cruel fate blocked the entrance, and I would be reluctant to ask why fate made such an arbitrary judgment, because my heart was not tamed and still fanatical; But the harsh words came to my mouth, but my tongue didn't say them, like tears that haven't fallen, and they flowed back to my heart.
As long as you face the sun, you can't see the shadow.
Facing the light, the shadow is behind us.
Faith is the master of fate.
Sometimes I think it would be great if people treated every day of their lives as if it were their last! This may reflect the value of life.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can't be seen or touched … they can only be felt with heart.