I chose Helen Keller for this assignment, because when I was young, I had a little book about her and I liked it very much, and I spent a lot of time reading it.
Helen Keller was a woman who was blinded, deaf, and mute because of a disease she suffered when she was a baby. Because of her difficult situation, she had a lot of hardships through her life. For example, she always had to read braille points to read books and use her hands as eyes to figure out things around her. She even had to touch her teacher’s tongue to learn how to speak. Moreover, she had to feel the audiences’ big hands when she finished her speech, with the vibration of the room she was in. Even so, she was a woman who was very brave. For instance, she did not ever give up learning in spite of her physical disabilities. She even went to Hardvard University which was a hard school also for usual students, and she got her degree. She also wrote many books and gave speeches before many people. In addition, she devoted her life helping poor people. For example, when she heard about a boy named Tommy and that he was in a similar physical situation with her, she sent all of her pocket money to help him. She even persuaded people to do so, so Tommy could go to school. She frequently visited shelters for poor people, and she tried to let them see hopes in their lives.