Have you seen this new picture of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan that they just found?
I'm fascinated.
Like probably pretty much everybody, I read a biography of Helen Keller as a child. Did you remember that Sullivan was 20 years old when she started working with Keller? I didn't. As I look at the picture though, I have such deep questions.
What inspired this young girl to be so devoted to this child? I have a hard time being that devoted to my own children sometimes!
How did she see potential in a child who couldn't see or hear? Keller was angry, spoiled, hateful. She would hit and kick all the time. I give up on people far too quickly.
Keller is a testimony to being believed in. I mean, if someone had not believed she could learn, she would not have become the scholar she became. I'm just very baffled and inspired by Sullivan's devotion.
I'm fascinated.
Like probably pretty much everybody, I read a biography of Helen Keller as a child. Did you remember that Sullivan was 20 years old when she started working with Keller? I didn't. As I look at the picture though, I have such deep questions.
What inspired this young girl to be so devoted to this child? I have a hard time being that devoted to my own children sometimes!
How did she see potential in a child who couldn't see or hear? Keller was angry, spoiled, hateful. She would hit and kick all the time. I give up on people far too quickly.
Keller is a testimony to being believed in. I mean, if someone had not believed she could learn, she would not have become the scholar she became. I'm just very baffled and inspired by Sullivan's devotion.
So true. I think it must have been something she was passionate about and really believed in Helen.
ReplyDeleteLike social workers today...you have to really love it to that job. I have friends that are social workers and the horror stories they tell--they do it because they love and want to help children.
I have to believe that Anne Sullivan was the same way.
I love that picture- you know, "a picture is worth a thousand words". I, too, was always fascinated with Helen Keller's story as a child. Makes me want to go back and read it again- I'd probably learn a whole new set of things now that I'm an adult.
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