The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Name of Book: The Story of My Life
Author: Helen Keller
Number of Pages: 225

The first conflict in this book was that when Helen Keller's teacher, Miss Sullivan, arrived to teach Helen for the first few months it was very hard for Miss Sullivan to teach because Helen was not only deaf and blind but also naughty and stubborn. The first thing which Miss Sullivan had to teach her was to just try and spell words into her palm to be given the object which she spelled. Helen learned to spell a few words like that but she couldn't understand what she was doing. She didn't understand the outside world around her and she didn't understand that each object had a name. One beautiful day, when Helen and her teacher were filling a mug with water, her teacher spelled w-a-t-e-r into her palm and that was the moment when Helen finally understood what water and many other objects really meant "I knew that water meant the wonderful cool  something that was flowing over my hands." (page 16) On this same day she learned a lot of other words. This conflict was solved when Helen finally understood that each object has a meaning and name. After this Helen started learning to read and write and even speak to communicate with others. When she was 20 years old in 1990 she entered Radcliffe college and despite her difficulties became the first deaf and blind person to graduate from college!