The Story of My Life

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Summary: When I read this my learned!!
Review: They forced me to read this book, but it was worth it, I mean it.

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Summary: Helen Keller: The Story of My Life
Review: This book gives a lot of courage and hope to the reader. It emphasizes the same life lesson that we have heard over and over again, "go for your dreams, and never let anything get in the way," yet it some how sticks out this time because it comes from such a remarkable person. It did, however go into way too much detail about her reading hobby and friends. Overall the book gave be more hope and inspiration than anyone else ever has to never give up on any of my dreams in life no matter what barriers and obstacles get in the way.

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Summary: Amazing, Wonderful and Inspiring
Review: This book made me see things more clearly through a life of a deaf and blind person and a relationship built on trust behind Helen and Anne grow into a wonderful friendship. How Helen managed to Got to college and graduate like an normal person who can hear and see is wonderful and amazing and then travel the world and a public speaker of all and also write books and the one about her life. As having a hearing problem myself after reading this book I felt better about myself and the see my self a the same as everyone else. I would like to buy it but I seem to be able to get it anywhere. I recommend the book to every one to read

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Summary: Shame on the reviewers who so belittle this great woman!
Review: This is a lovely inspirational book by a woman who overcame GREAT odds to come to the place where she could write this book. I am assuming that most of the prior reviewers are children who have been forced to read this book - I have one thing to say to you....open your minds....maybe something will find its way in there.

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Summary: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Review: This is an excellent work for children in the teen years and
beyond. It is written well and the grammatical style is
appropriate for the subject matter of the story. The author
relates her life experiences going back to an early age.
Apparently, she lost her sight and hearing as a result of a
chronic childhood disease prevalent in the late 1800s.
There is an extensive recitation of her learning experiences
with hand-signalling and braille. Helen, as many disabled
people, learned to compensate for her lack of sight by
preparing every lesson extensively. Her series of personal
letters are heart-warming. As with Anne Frank, the author
explained the importance of keeping a detailed diary.
Ultimately, perseverance saved her from a life of darkness
and complete solitude. The work is written in a superior
writing style with sentence structures similar to the
outstanding writers of her time. This book is a worthy purchase
for a large constituency of readers.

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Summary: Inspirational
Review: Truthfully and briefly: I found much of this book difficult to read. However, I felt I learned some invaluable lessons from reading it. One in particular was the making explicit of something I felt for a long time to be true, namely, the effectiveness of Miss Sullivan's method of teaching. To put it succinctly, by responding to the child's curiosity and letting it lead you wherever it goes(As opposed to formalized instruction). I feel that though this book has been revered for about 100 years, what Miss Sullivan said repeatedly in this regard is still ignored by our educational system. Such is life! Then, Miss Keller's attitude towards failure stands as a ready inspiration for all whose lives are impeded by the fear of failure. She says, "Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow." Her life and her book are testimony to that dictum.

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Summary: How I Spend a Rainy Sunday Afternoon
Review: Well, I bought this book some tiime ago, and decided to read it when there was nothing else to do. I figured with only 75 pages, I could finish it in a day. To be honest I really liked it. Helen Keller gives me an appreciation of the things I take for granted through the narration of her early life. In spite of her disabilities, Helen was able to find beauty in the world and later in her life she fought to solve many of the problems in the world. Few people realize that Helen lived 88 years and spend many of those years as a social activist. The bulk of this book focuses on her early years and how she learned to communicat with the outside world. The book continues into her formal education and the problems she encountered with it. My only problem with this book is the author tends to ramble in the last two chapters about her friends and favorite authors. While this information was interesting, I would have rather learned more about her. This book is well worth reading!

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Summary: My favorite book!
Review: When Helen Keller was a baby, she was perfectly normal. Until got a dangerous illness. Her fever would mysteriously come and go. At first, the doctors thought she was going to die, but no one - not even he doctor knew about her losing her hearing and sight. From this day she doesn't recall what happened during the first months after her illness. She was born in Tuscumbia, a little town in northern Alabama, on June 27, 1880.