Helen keller 3rd chapter summary
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Helen mentions that her desire to express herself grew. she needed to work harder and learn more ways to communicate with others. In her effort to do so, she often got impatient and frustrated, at times losing her temper. Sometimes, these outbursts occurred every hour of the day. Her parents were worried and sad about her condition and wondered if a teacher would be willing to come and guide her in an out-of-the-way place like Tuscumbia.
A RAY OF HOPE
Her mother's only ray of hope came from Charles Dickens' `American Notes' in which she read about Laura Bridgman, the first deaf-blind person to receive formal education under Dr Howe at the Perkins Institution for the Blind. Unfortunately, Dr Howe had been dead many years and probably his methods died with him. When Helen was six years old, her father heard of a well-known eye specialist in Baltimore, and Helen went to meet him with her parents.
THE PLEASANT JOURNEY TO BALTIMORE
During the journey, Helen played with a string of shells, the conductor's ticket punch and a doll made of towels. The dolls was given to her by her aunt, but it had no eyes, nose, mouth or ears. Helen felt that the doll needed eyes; so she pulled two beads from her aunt's dress and indicated to her aunt to sew them as eyes on the doll's face. However, immediately after the doll was provided with eyes, Helen lost all interest in it. In Baltimore, they met Dr Chisholm, a specialist in diseases and disorders of the eyes, but he was unable to do anything for Helen. He suggested that they should meet Dr Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone and a teacher of the deaf) in Washington.
FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT
Helen found Dr Bell's company comforting and liked him at once. She mentions that, at that time, she didn't know the short interview would be her door from darkness into light. Dr Bell advised her father to write to Dr Anagnos, Director of the Perkins Institution in Boston. In reply to the letter, Dr Anagnos conveyed that a teacher, Miss Sullivan, would come to teach Helen. She arrived next year in March, 1887. The news of Miss Sullivan's arrival was a great relief to Helen and an inner voice told her that knowledge was love, light and vision.