TIM: Soon, Sullivan taught her how to read, first with raised letters, and then with braille, a writing system for the blind made up of raised dots. Just a few days after the incident at the water pump, she learned thirty new words in just a few hours!Īn animation shows more words above Keller's head: "mother", "father", "teacher", and "sister".
TIM: Once she began to understand words, Helen could start understanding the world around her. Her expression from before has changed to a pleasant expression. The word quickly takes on the blue, rippling quality of water. TIM: She understood the connection between the word "water" and the water itself.Īn image shows Keller against a black background. Keller's left hand is under the water, as Sullivan draws a word into Keller's right palm. All of a sudden, something clicked in Helen’s mind.Īn animation shows Sullivan and Keller standing at a water pump. Sullivan was pumping water onto Helen’s hand, and spelling the word “water” onto the other. TIM: One day, the two were outside, at a water pump. The letters A, B, C, and D, appear above each one. TIM: Well, basically, she would use her finger to spell letters out onto Helen’s palm.Īn image shows Sullivan's hand drawing four letters onto the palm of Keller's hand.
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TIM: But she also spent time teaching her the manual alphabet. Sullivan sometimes had to physically fight Helen to get her to behave!Īn image shows Sullivan physically holding Keller back against a wall as Keller lashes out with her arms and screams. TIM: When she went down to Alabama, she was just 20 years old, and young Helen was only six.Īn image shows a worried Sullivan and a young, angry Keller appearing together. She has short, dark hair and a strong jaw. But she got a good education at a school for the blind in Massachusetts.Īn image shows Annie Sullivan. She lost most of her eyesight at age five, and she and her brother grew up in a state home for orphans. Sullivan had had a tough childhood of her own. Eventually, she found a young woman named Annie Sullivan. TIM: Her mother tried to find a tutor who could help Helen learn to get along in the world.
Her parents look on with confusion and concern. TIM: She reacted like any scared kid would - with temper tantrums and outbursts.Īn image shows young Keller in her family's living room. TIM: It was like she was trapped in a prison of darkness and silence. She couldn’t understand what was going on around her, and she couldn’t express her feelings.Īn image shows a young Keller appearing in front of a black background, looking afraid and unsure. But it left Helen terrified and confused. TIM: Well, doctors couldn’t really figure out what the illness was. TIM: A serious illness left her permanently deaf and blind at only 19 months old.Īn image shows Keller as a young child, standing in front of her house. A dot in Northeast Alabama shows the location of Tuscumbia, Alabama - Keller's birthplace. Helen Keller was born in a small town in Alabama, in 1880.Īn image shows Keller beside a map of the United States. TIM: Well, if you’ll stop splashing me for a minute, I’ll tell you. Moby splashes Tim with water from the pump. Helen Keller was a deaf and blind woman who overcame her disabilities to become an accomplished author and activist.Īn image of Helen Keller is shown: she is a woman in her 40s with short brown hair. TIM: Dear Tim and Moby, why was Helen Keller so famous? From, Elena. Tim reads from a typed letter with water. Moby splashes Tim with water, soaking him. Moby pumps the handle and water flows out of the spout. Tim and Moby are outdoors at a water pump. Title text reads, The Mysteries of Life with Tim and Moby.
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