• 1. English Holiday Assignment • 2. The Story of My Life • 3. About the author Helen Adams Keller (June 27,1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The prolific author, Keller was well traveled and was outspoken in her opposition to war. She campaigned for women’s suffrage, workers’ rights, and socialism, as well as many other progressive causes. There was one great soul in Keller’s life who was the reason for all her achievements in life, Anne Sullivan, Helen’s teacher. • 4. Anne Mansfield Sullivan Helen’s teacher “The Miracle Worker’’ in Helen’s life • 5. Major Characters • 6. Helen Keller Helen Keller is the author of The Story of My Life. The story is actually an autobiography of her life. • 7. Arthur H. Keller Helen’s father, Arthur Keller had been a captain in the Confederate army. He was a hospitable man who enjoyed bringing guests home to see his garden. • 8. Kate Keller Helen’s mother, Kate Keller was an early source of comfort for the troubled child. Kate learned the manual alphabet so that she could communicate effectively with her daughter. • 9. Anne Mansfield Sullivan When Anne went to teach Helen Keller, she was only twenty years old and a recent graduate of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. Throughout Helen’s life, Sullivan was dedicated to supporting her efforts in education and in social reform, which was uninterrupted even after Sullivan married Helen Keller’s editor, John Albert Macy. Sullivan died in 1936. • 10. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell Dr. Alexander Graham Bell first met Helen when she was six years old and her parents brought her to him for advice on how to teach her. Dr. Bell remained a friend to Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. “The Story of My Life “is dedicated to him. • 11. Mr. Anagnos The director of the Perkins Institution. He sent Anne Sullivan to the Helen Kellers’ home. He and Helen became friends. • 12. Secondary Characters • 13. Martha Washington: The child of the Kellers’ cook and Helen John P. Spaulding: Spaulding was a dear friend to Helen Mr. Irons: A Latin scholar and a family friend of Anne and Helen.  Mr. Keith: He was Helen’s mathematics instructor at the Cambridge School for Young Ladies.  Mr. Arthur Gilman: Arthur Gilman was the principal at Radcliffe College, where Helen attained her degree.  Dr. Chisholm: He was the oculist ( eye doctor) who treated Helen and referred her to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell  Miss Sarah Fuller: The principal of the Horace Mann School, where Helen learned to speak.  Mildred Keller: Helen’s sister. ’s childhood friend. • 14. Ella: Ella , Helen’s childhood nurse, was subject to her terrible fits and spiteful acts. Margaret T. Canby: Canby was the author of “The Frost Fairies”, on which Helen’s “the Frost King” was inadverten

2. About the book
In this book Helen Keller writes
about her own account of how it
was to be handicapped by
blindness and deafness and
through the magic of learning to
reach out and conquer these
handicaps. With the help of a
great and dedicated teacher

3. About the author Helen Adams Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27,1880 –
June 1, 1968) was an American author,
political activist and lecturer. She was
the first deaf-blind person to earn a
Bachelor of Arts degree. The prolific
author, Keller was well traveled and
was outspoken in her opposition to war.
She campaigned for women’s suffrage,
workers’ rights, and socialism, as well
as many other progressive causes.
There was one great soul in Keller’s life

4. Major Characters
1.Helen Keller Helen Keller is the author of
The Story of My Life. The story is actually
an autobiography of her life.
2. Arthur H. Keller Helen’s father, Arthur
Keller had been a captain in the
Confederate army. He was a hospitable
man who enjoyed bringing guests home to
see his garden.
3. Kate Keller Helen’s mother, Kate Keller
was an early source of comfort for the

5. 4. Anne Mansfield Sullivan When Anne went to
teach Helen Keller, she was only twenty years old
and a recent graduate of the Perkins Institution
for the Blind. Throughout Helen’s life, Sullivan
was dedicated to supporting her efforts in
education and in social reform, which was
uninterrupted even after Sullivan married Helen
Keller’s editor, John Albert Macy. Sullivan died in
1936.
5. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell Dr. Alexander
Graham Bell first met Helen when she was six
years old and her parents brought her to him for
advice on how to teach her. Dr. Bell remained a

6. Summary

7. Helen Keller, the little deaf and blind girl was
triumphed over adversity to become world
famous. Helen was born on June 27, 1880 in
Tuscumbia, Alabama, to Captain Arthur Henry
Keller, a confederate army veteran and a
newspaper editor, and Kate Adams Keller. By all
accounts, she was a normal child. But at 19
months, Helen suffered an illness – scarlet fever
or meningitis that left her deaf and blind. Although
Helen learned basic household tasks and could
communicate some of her desires through a
series of signs, she did not learn language the
way other children do. Indeed, her family
wondered how a deaf and blind child could be

8. . After studying at the Wright Humason School for
the Deaf and the Cambridge School for Young
ladies, Helen entered Radcliff College in 1900
and finished her graduation in 1904. The Story of
My Life shows, Helen Keller’s life is neither a
miracle nor a joke. It is a tremendous
achievement. It is destined to be imprisoned in
darkness and isolation for the rest of her life,
Helen built upon the brilliant work of her teacher,
Anne Sullivan, to become an inter-nationally
recognized and respected figure. In 1908 Helen
published “The World I Live In”, an account of
how she experienced the world through touch,
taste and scent. In magazine articles she

9. Why I like this novel?

10. My Opinion of the Novel I
found the book very
interesting as it narrates the
life of Helen Keller and the
obstacles she had to
overcome in life as a deaf
and blind person and finally
become what she wanted to

11. Thank
YouNAME – JAYANT