How Did Helen Keller Impact Her Life

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. For 19 months Helen was a healthy baby, but in 1882 she possessed an illness that caused her to lose her sight and hearing. As a child she lived in complete darkness with no way to communicate with her family. Whenever she would try to communicate she would throw fits and have out outbreaks. Because of her fits she was considered a bad kid and uncontrollable, but little did they know that she would become the most famous disabled person to ever live.
Helen's parents impacted her life in a big way. Helen accomplished a lot of her work because of her parents. Her parents contacted Samuel Gridley Howe’s because of his results with the deaf and blind. Helen Keller’s father brought Helen to Alexander Bell, a man with great publicity. Alexander was so astonished by Helen that he recommended her to go to the Perkins Institute For The Blind.When she went to the institute she was assigned with Anne Sullivan as her teacher. Helens soon to be best friend, Anne Sullivan, arrived at the Keller's house

She published The World I Live In in 1909. It was a essays about how Helen thought of the world. In 1909 Helen joined the socialist party, being a socialist made Helen's life more exciting and gave her life more of a political purpose. She used her words to explain her beliefs about anything. She wrote A Song Of Stone Wall in 1910 about being patriotic. The poem had 600 lines and was one of her greatest and last poem she ever wrote.
Helen never believed in war and supported many movements. For example, she stood for abolition of capital punishment and child labor, the birth control movement, and also the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Because of what Helen was apart of, she had trouble with her family not believing in what she did. Her family and friends back in alabama were frustrated with her decisions and