Free Topic: The Most Important Day of Helen Keller

The most important day of Helen Keller is the one on which her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan , came to her. The morning after Miss Sullivan came, she led Helen into her room and gave her a doll. When Helen had played with the doll for a while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into her hand the word "d-o-l-l". Helen was at once interested in this finger play, and she tried to imitate it. When she finally succeeded in making the letters correctly, she was flushed with childish pleasure and pride. Running downstairs to her mother, she held up her hand and made the letters for doll. She did not know that she was spelling a word or even that words existed: she was simply making her fingers go in monkey-like imitation. In the days that followed she learned to spell a great many words in this uncompehending way. She also learned that everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought. She doesn't remember what new words are but she does know words make the world blossom for her.