Helen Keller was known for many things as being a blind and deaf woman. Helen found many ways to work around her disabilities and accomplish things that seem imposible for someone under her circumstances. Over her lifetime she wrote 14 books, almost 500 speechs, was the first blind and deaf person to graduate college, and some say she flew a plane.
Helen Keller was born in 1880 to Aurther and Kate Keller. At 19 months old, she was diagnosed with a high case of at the time was called "brain fever", but now experts say it was scarlet fever. This left her completely blind and deaf at a young age. She had to find ways to be able to comunicate. One way is she would interprate hand signals that were pressed into her palm. Helen would also lip read by placing her hand on someones houth as they talked and on there throat to feel the vibrasions. Luckily for Helen, she had a teacher, Anne Sullivan, who helped her get to where she was with education and communicating which lead to her being an author. Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904 and later became the first blind deaf person to get a Bachelor of Arts degree. She wrote her first book in 1903, The Story of My Life.
Helen wrote books to try and educate people about her journey and what she accompished. She worked hard to promote the needs for blind and deaf people. Her essays and speechs she wrote were to speak out many causes like women suffrage and workers' rights. Many people find it hard to believe most of the things Keller accomplished were real. A deaf-blind person writing multiple books seems pretty imposible. What seems to make everyone really not beileve is that she flew a plane. In June 1946, Keller flew a plane over the Mediterranean Sea for 20 minutes of its route. Back in this time, woman were not usually the ones to fly the plane and she had barley ever been a passenger in one before this experience. It is said that she piloted this plane with help from an interpreter who was giving her the instructions the piolet was telling him. Its hard to imagine a blind-deaf woman flying a plane which is why many people are sceptical of this.
Personally, I think that she was a real person, but some of the things said she did are hard to believe. Some say she was never a real person at all. There is photographed evidence of Keller and witnesses that confirm some of the things she had done. However, I still find it hard to believe that she got in the pilot seat of a plane and flew it while being blind and deaf. Back then, these things seemed impossible that she even could have learned to read and write in the first place.
Do you think she could have flown a plane?
Do you think she was even real at all?
If you were in her position, would you push to accomplish as much as her?
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I think Helen Keller is real. I don't think she flew a plane because it would be really hard for her if she was blind and deaf. If she did end up flying she would have to have assistance because it would be hard for her to fly on her own. If I was in her position I would want to push to accomplish things but I don't think I would have accomplished as many things as she did.
I do think Helen Keller was real, but I have questions and am sceptic of all the things people believe she did are really true. I just can't imagine how someone who has to communicate through someone touching her palms could be able to control and fly a whole plane.
I think the way she learned to communicate was scetical also because she became deaf-blind at such a young age that shes barley even spoken or understood words.
I think Helen Keller was a real person but I also do not believe all the things she did. First of all, if she was totally blind and deaf, how would she know what each letter sounded like. Also if she used brail, how would she know what each word meant. If she felt the word "read" would she think that was a food of some sort?
I also am curious how she was able to figure out letters, words, and sound vibrasions. The ways she was "taught to communicate" are confusing because of her condition.
I think that it would be possible to co fly a plane becuase the real pilot would have done everything but people would say that she flew a plane and not thagt she didn't do anything to help becuase that would hurt her image. I think that she was a real person but there was a lot of people lying about her accomplishments. If I was in her shoes I wouldn't accomplish as much as her becuase it isn't possible for a blind and deaf person to do crazy thing like that just because they want to.
I think that Hellen Keller was real. I think that she flew a plane with some help. I find it crazy that she would be able to fly a plane with no help. I think that it would probably be pretty dangerous if she did it all by herself it she could see anything or hear anything.
It would be hard to fly a plane with help because it would be loud and noisy and since she is deaf-blind how would she ever understand what to do? It would be dangerous to be in that plane.
I belive that Helen is real and that she did do all of the events that she is known of doing, but I think it was with the help of others because I think it is quite impossible to especially fly a plane, but most of all I do think she did occur in these events and belive she is real.
I agree with you becasue I believe she was a real person but some of her "acheviments" such as flying a plane while being deaf-blind seems pretty impossible. Other than that I think most of her accomplishments were real.
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