Book Report 3

Kara's third book report was supposed to be on a biography.  Our limited little library only had a few options, so she picked Hellen Keller.  Since Hellen Keller is from Alabama, I'm not surprised it was an option.  lol.

Here is her report.  I thought she did a nice job.

  The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is the autobiography of a girl who is blind and deaf. It recounts how she grew up differently and how she was educated.

  When she was a really little girl, just learned to walk, Helen Keller was ravaged by a disease that took her sight and hearing. For years, she communicated by making hand motions and learned by following her mother around the house. She was naughty, since she was unable to learn what not to do and could not be told what not to do, so, one day, she locked her mother in a closet for three hours. Her parents decided that they really had to hire a teacher, so that’s just what they did. Helen learned how to talk by ‘spelling out words’ into other people’s hands. She was educated in a school for deaf girls, and grew up just as a person with sight and hearing would. In college, she had to have the teachers rewrite the textbooks so that she could read them.

          I enjoyed this book, especially Helen Keller’s young childhood when she was learning to communicate and making friends with other deaf girls, but I honestly felt like it went on a bit too much about how she did in school. Other than that, it was interesting, and I was always curious to find how she would overcome an obstacle.