Helen Keller's Accomplishments

Helen Keller

Life is not easy for a hero with an extraordinary early life, such as Helen Keller. She is a great example of a hero because, even though she faced the horrors of being blind and deaf, she still achieved many goals in her life. Heroes are people who change the world for the better with their own efforts. Keller is a great hero, as she worked exceedingly hard and stayed determined at even the hardest times. This woman has and still is influencing many people to do their best with her perseverance and intelligence.

Helen Keller faced many obstacles throughout her life. She became blind and deaf when she was 19 months old, when she had a disease, believed to be “scarlet fever”. At age 7, she started working with Anne Sullivan, a recent graduate. Keller was then isolated from the rest of her family at a shockingly young age to focus on Sullivan’s teachings, and soon the pupil showed great understanding of several methods of communication, including touch-lip reading, Braille, speech, and typing. Keller’s relationship with Anne Sullivan lasted for 49 years, until Sullivan’s death in 1936. After her death, a woman called Polly Thompson became Keller’s

As one article stated, “Rogers was so impressed with Keller's talent, drive and determination that he agreed to pay for her to attend Radcliffe College” (Biography.com). She graduated cum laude in 1904, at the age of 24, and was the first blind and deaf to achieve such goal. She was one of 20th century’s most important humanitarians, as well as the co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. She was an educator, activist, and author who wrote several books, 6 of them being about her own life. Keller was a member of the American Federation for the Blind, and she also became counselor of international relations for the American Foundation of Overseas Blind. With the help of an interpreter, she began lecturing in