Personally, I am very interested in deafness (I am walking along the path to deafness myself), Deaf Culture, Deaf history, and d/Deaf people. Helen Keller was both deaf and blind - and I am very interested in how a person would live out their life like that - being blind might be difficult at first, but after a while, a person could probably adjust, and the idea of deafness does not really scare me. But being blind and deaf is something else altogether - I do not know if I could handle them both at the same time - I think that I would find it frightening. Helen Keller is both, which interests me greatly. I found myself looking for a book about Helen Keller, and this is what I found - a book from the perspective of the highly overlooked teacher of Helen Keller, the person who taught Helen everything she knew - Annie Sullivan, about her first month trying to, well, reach Helen Keller.
Have you ever read a book, where you want to say something about it, and you just can't figure out what to say? That is how I am about this book - so if how I feel about this book is blurry at first, please be patient while I babble my way out of this slightly confusing state! Personally, I am very interested in deafness (I am walking along the path to deafness myself), Deaf Culture, Deaf history, and d/Deaf people. Helen Keller was both deaf and blind - and I am very interested in how a person would live out their life like that - being blind might be difficult at first, but after a while, a person could probably adjust, and the idea of deafness does not really scare me. But being blind and deaf is something else altogether - I do not know if I could handle them both at the same time - I think that I would find it frightening. Helen Keller is both, which interests me greatly. I found myself looking for a book about Helen Keller, and this is what I found - a book from the perspective of the highly overlooked teacher of Helen Keller, the person who taught Helen everything she knew - Annie Sullivan, about her first month trying to, well, reach Helen Keller. There is not much more to say about the story line, so I am going to hop right to it - I like this book, and so as soon as I finished this book, I gave it to my mom, who also liked it a lot. It was another interesting look into another world - both the 1880s, and Annie Sullivan's world. It is fairly good - I'm not going to say you have to read it though. If you see it in your local library or on a shelf of a friend who trusts you enough to lend you their precious books, and have nothing else to read - then sure, give this book a read through. I guess I feel kind of lukewarm about it. And I am sorry, I'm not sure what else to say.
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