Essay On Hellen Keller

Peter Drier states that Hellen Keller is remembered for being deaf and blind but not recognized as being an activist and overcoming her physical disabilities. Peter Drier challenges his readers to see past Hellen Kellers Physical disabilities and instead remember her for being an activist for social change, women 's rights, and peace. He states "They don 't teach when the blind-deaf visionary learned that poor people were more likely to be blind than others she set down a path of a socialist." Hellen Keller set down a path for social change. In the article Drier states that "in 1909 Keller joined the socialist party and wrote several articles in support of her ideas" Keller after joining the socialist party received a lot of criticism saying that she couldn 't make good opinions and statements because she was deaf and blind. This however is not true, being an active member in a socialist party is not an easy task and somehow she still found a way to get there and she never gave up,

Throughout the article Peter also explains that Hellen Keller was not only a Woman 's right leader and an activist in Civil rights, she also was an activist for peace. Drier states in the article "Keller visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki, cities destroyed by American atomic bombs at the end of World War II, and spoke out against nuclear war." Keller was an activist against war shown how she did not like all the death and hardship that had been going on at the time in Hiroshima and Nagasaki due to the Americans who had bombed them. She wrote several articles about peace and why war and violence was never the answer. Drier also states in the article "at the height of the Cold War, she wrote a public birthday greeting and letter of support to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a leading Communist activist" Peter Drier beleived that Hellen Keller was underapriciated and he was right, she was a hardworking women who was blind and deaf but still managed to be an inspirational figure in the eyes