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1、Helen KellerFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchHelen KellerKeller in 1904BornJune 27, 1880(1880-06-27)Tuscumbia, Alabama, USADiedJune 1, 1968(1968-06-01) (aged 87)Arcan Ridge, Easton, Connecticut, USASignatureHelen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 June 1, 1968) was an America

2、n author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.12 The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicat

3、e, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled, and was outspoken in her opposition to war. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Wobblies, she campaigned for women's suffrage, workers

4、9; rights, and socialism, as well as many other leftist causes.Contentshide· 1 Early childhood and illness· 2 Formal education· 3 Companions· 4 Political activities· 5 Writings· 6 Akita dog· 7 Later life· 8 Portrayals· 9 Posthumous honors· 10 See als

5、o· 11 References· 12 Further reading· 13 External linksEarly childhood and illnessKeller with Anne Sullivan vacationing at Cape Cod in July 1888Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her family lived on a homestead, Ivy Green,3 that Helen's grandfathe

6、r had built decades earlier.4 Helen's father, Arthur H. Keller,5 spent many years as an editor for the Tuscumbia North Alabamian and had served as a captain for the Confederate Army.4 Helen's paternal grandmother was the second cousin of Robert E. Lee.6 Helen's mother, Kate Adams,7 was t

7、he daughter of Charles Adams.8 Though originally from Massachusetts, Charles Adams also fought for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, earning the rank of brigadier-general.6Helen's father's lineage can be traced to Casper Keller, a native of Switzerland.69 Coincidentally, on

8、e of Helen's Swiss ancestors was the first teacher for the deaf in Zurich.6 Helen reflects upon this coincidence in her first autobiography, stating "that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."6Helen Keller was not

9、born blind and deaf; it was not until she was 19 months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her d

10、eaf and blind. At that time, she was able to communicate somewhat with Martha Washington,10 the six-year-old daughter of the family cook, who understood her signs; by the age of seven, she had over 60 home signs to communicate with her family.In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Di

11、ckens' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.11 He subsequently put them in touch with Ale

12、xander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell advised the couple to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the school where Bridgman had been educated, which was then located in South Boston. Michael Anaganos, the school's director, asked former student Anne Sull

13、ivan, herself visually impaired and only 20 years old, to become Keller's instructor. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship, Sullivan evolving into governess and then eventual companion.Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller's house in March 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen

14、to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with "d-o-l-l" for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present. Keller was frustrated, at first, because she did not understand that every object had a word uniquely identifying it. In fact, when Sullivan was trying to teach K

15、eller the word for "mug", Keller became so frustrated she broke the doll. 12 Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the i

16、dea of "water" she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.Due to a protruding left eye, Keller was usually photographed in profile. Both her eyes were replaced in adulthood with glass replicas for "medical and cosmetic reasons

17、".13Formal educationStarting in May, 1888, Keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1894, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they return

18、ed to Massachusetts and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College, where she lived in Briggs Hall, South House. Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife, paid fo

19、r her education. In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She maintained a correspondence with the Austrian philosopher and pedagogue Wilhelm Jerusalem, who was one of the first to discover her literary talent

20、.14CompanionsAnne Sullivan stayed as a companion to Helen Keller long after she taught her. Anne married John Macy in 1905, and her health started failing around 1914. Polly Thompson was hired to keep house. She was a young woman from Scotland who didn't have experience with deaf or blind people

21、. She progressed to working as a secretary as well, and eventually became a constant companion to Keller.15Keller moved to Forest Hills, Queens together with Anne and John, and used the house as a base for her efforts on behalf of American Foundation for the Blind.16After Anne died in 1936, Keller a

22、nd Thompson moved to Connecticut. They traveled worldwide and raised funding for the blind. Thompson had a stroke in 1957 from which she never fully recovered, and died in 1960.1Winnie Corbally, a nurse who was originally brought in to care for Thompson in 1957, stayed on after her death and was Kel

23、ler's companion for the rest of her life.1Political activitiesHelen Keller sitting holding a magnolia flower, circa 1920."The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all . The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculato

24、rs, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppre

25、ssion in order that the small remnant may live in ease." Helen Keller, 1911 17Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, amid numerous other causes. She was a suffragist, a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson, a

26、 radical socialist and a birth control supporter. In 1915 she and George Kessler founded the Helen Keller International (HKI) organization. This organization is devoted to research in vision, health and nutrition. In 1920 she helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Keller and Sull

27、ivan traveled to over 39 countries, making several trips to Japan and becoming a favorite of the Japanese people. Keller met every U.S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain.Kelle

28、r was a member of the Socialist Party and actively campaigned and wrote in support of the working class from 1909 to 1921. She supported Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs in each of his campaigns for the presidency.Keller and her friend Mark Twain were both considered radicals at the beginnin

29、g of the 20th century, and as a consequence, their political views have been forgotten or glossed over in popular perception.18 Newspaper columnists who had praised her courage and intelligence before she expressed her socialist views now called attention to her disabilities. The editor of the Brook

30、lyn Eagle wrote that her "mistakes sprung out of the manifest limitations of her development." Keller responded to that editor, referring to having met him before he knew of her political views:“At that time the compliments he paid me were so generous that I blush to remember them. But now

31、 that I have come out for socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf and especially liable to error. I must have shrunk in intelligence during the years since I met him.Oh, ridiculous Brooklyn Eagle! Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system that is the

32、 cause of much of the physical blindness and deafness which we are trying to prevent.19”Keller joined the Industrial Workers of the World (known as the IWW or the Wobblies) in 1912,18 saying that parliamentary socialism was "sinking in the political bog". She wrote for the IWW between 1916

33、 and 1918. In Why I Became an IWW,20 Keller explained that her motivation for activism came in part from her concern about blindness and other disabilities:“I was appointed on a commission to investigate the conditions of the blind. For the first time I, who had thought blindness a misfortune beyond

34、 human control, found that too much of it was traceable to wrong industrial conditions, often caused by the selfishness and greed of employers. And the social evil contributed its share. I found that poverty drove women to a life of shame that ended in blindness.”The last sentence refers to prostitu

35、tion and syphilis, the former a frequent cause of the latter, and the latter a leading cause of blindness.WritingsKeller wrote a total of 12 published books and several articles.One of her earliest pieces of writing, at age 11, was The Frost King (1891). There were allegations that this story had be

36、en plagiarized from The Frost Fairies by Margaret Canby. An investigation into the matter revealed that Keller may have experienced a case of cryptomnesia, which was that she had Canby's story read to her but forgot about it, while the memory remained in her subconscious.1At age 22, Keller publi

37、shed her autobiography, The Story of My Life (1903), with help from Sullivan and Sullivan's husband, John Macy. It includes words that Keller wrote and the story of her life up to age 21, and was written during her time in college.Keller wrote The World I Live In in 1908 giving readers an insigh

38、t into how she felt about the world.21 Out of the Dark, a series of essays on socialism, was published in 1913.When Keller was young, Anne Sullivan introduced her to Phillips Brooks, who introduced her to Christianity, Keller famously saying: "I always knew He was there, but I didn't know H

39、is name!222324Her spiritual autobiography, My Religion, was published in 1927 and then in 1994 extensively revised and re-issued under the title Light in My Darkness. It advocates the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, the Christian revelator and theologian who gives a spiritual interpretation of the

40、teachings of the Bible and who claims that the second coming of Jesus Christ has already taken place. Adherents use several names to describe themselves, including Second Advent Christian, Swedenborgian and New Church.Akita dogWhen Keller visited Akita Prefecture in Japan in July 1937, she inquired

41、about Hachik, the famed Akita dog that had died in 1935. She told a Japanese person that she would like to have an Akita dog; one was given to her within a month, with the name of Kamikaze-go. When he died of canine distemper, his older brother, Kenzan-go, was presented to her as an official gift fr

42、om the Japanese government in July 1938. Keller is credited with having introduced the Akita to the United States through these two dogs.By 1939 a breed standard had been established and dog shows had been held, but such activities stopped after World War II began. Keller wrote in the Akita Journal:

43、“If ever there was an angel in fur, it was Kamikaze. I know I shall never feel quite the same tenderness for any other pet. The Akita dog has all the qualities that appeal to me he is gentle, companionable and trusty.2526”Later lifeKeller suffered a series of strokes in 1961 and spent the last years

44、 of her life at her home.1On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest two civilian honors.27 In 1965 she was elected to the National Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair.1Keller devoted m

45、uch of her later life to raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968, at her home, Arcan Ridge, located in Easton, Connecticut. A service was held in her honor at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and her ashes were placed there next to he

46、r constant companions, Anne Sullivan and Polly Thompson.PortrayalsKeller's life has been interpreted many times. She appeared in a silent film, Deliverance (1919), which told her story in a melodramatic, allegorical style.28She was also the subject of the documentaries Helen Keller in Her Story,

47、 narrated by Katharine Cornell, and The Story of Helen Keller, part of the Famous Americans series produced by Hearst Entertainment.The Miracle Worker is a cycle of dramatic works ultimately derived from her autobiography, The Story of My Life. The various dramas each describe the relationship betwe

48、en Keller and Sullivan, depicting how the teacher led her from a state of almost feral wildness into education, activism, and intellectual celebrity. The common title of the cycle echoes Mark Twain's description of Sullivan as a "miracle worker." Its first realization was the 1957 Play

49、house 90 teleplay of that title by William Gibson. He adapted it for a Broadway production in 1959 and an Oscar-winning feature film in 1962, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. It was remade for television in 1979 and 2000.In 1984, Helen Keller's life story was made into a TV movie called Th

50、e Miracle Continues.29 This film that entailed the semi-sequel to The Miracle Worker recounts her college years and her early adult life. None of the early movies hint at the social activism that would become the hallmark of Keller's later life, although The Walt Disney Company version produced

51、in 2000 states in the credits that she became an activist for social equality.The Bollywood movie Black (2005) was largely based on Keller's story, from her childhood to her graduation. A documentary called Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy was produced by the Swedenborg Foundation in the same year. The film focuses on the role played by Emanuel Swedenborg's spiritual theology in her life and how it inspired Keller's triumph over her triple disabilities of blindness, deafness and a severe speech imped