Interpreting The Basis Of Helen Keller's Eight Paragraph

In the last stanza of the poem the Doll addresses the reader, stating “my hair was golden, my eyes were blue And I had a dress with flowers and all” (Lines 12-13). Having gold hair, blue eyes, and a dress are favorable traits looking at the poem with a Modern Lens. The Doll also mentioned of its sprig of cherries in its hat, mentioning all of the positive qualities of its outfit. An opponent might argue that being in the first person, the story is full of biases. Although the reader will never know what color the Doll is or if it is a missing piece the reader has to connect the dots. The Doll was repaired and thought it was only important to mention its hair, eyes, and clothing. It is important to remember the Doll didn’t mention any of the visible repairs which may have lowered its worth based on appearance.

Do you think you could live being blind and deaf? Well, Helen Keller managed to live her very interesting life with those two problems. At the age of 2, she had a brain fever, and it caused her to go blind, deaf, and mute. She changed an impact on everyone who had disorders like her and let them know that they had a chance at the things that were difficult for them. Helen’s life as a child was confusing and even more difficult for her because she was just learning how to live with her disabilities.

Throughout the year we have read many stories where reality and fantasy come into question. Once again we have this same problem with “The Youngest Doll”. What makes us question reality or fantasy in the story is the vivid description the author gives of the dolls that the aunt makes for the girls. With the description of the “wax mask of the child’s face” or the “porcelain of the hands and face”, it gives off the allusion that what may seem as a reality may in fact be a fantasy and it is that allusion that gives off the feeling of uncanniness. This is not the only theme that is displayed throughout the story, the others being “eyes”, as well as women being

This source is an online version of the book that Helen Keller wrote about herself titled “Story of My Life”. This autobiography is relevant to my topic because it is Helen’s version of the events that took place in her life. She goes into detail about her disease and what she remembers happened before and after it took over her life. This is a reliable source because it shows the whole book and not just bits and pieces, which leaves no room for

Repression can lead one to forget about something traumatic and allow them to move forward into the future. Repression can have many different effects on a person to them move forward such as changing themselves to act differently because they do not want to revert back to an undesirable version of themselves. One may repress an undesirable version of themselves because that version connects to something unpleasant in the past. In Joyce Carol Oates’ story The Doll, Florence Parr, the protagonist of the story manages to turn herself into a doll in the real world by repression. Florence represses an unwanted version of herself, her childhood self, because this part of herself made her not feel loved and appreciated by people in the past. Therefore, the idea of Florence behaving as a doll repeats throughout the story because she represses her childhood self that does not display doll-like characteristics and thus allows her to keep acting like a doll and be loved by people.

This goes on to show that the narrator (who expresses herself as young, poor girl) does not have any women in her family and Lucy is someone she can run to and be her female barrier through life, as a sister which she says, “And we look at each other, our arms gummy from Popsicle we split, we could be sisters right?(5)”.Relating to she wants so much to be close to this girl, and she imagines them as sisters. In addition to, there are no male presence around except for her brothers which makes her feel like she can not relate to “their”world. Another reference of identity is in the story “Barbie-Q”, the little girl is playing with Barbie dolls with her friend, and the barbie dolls are very basic with not much clothing. Moreover, there is no “Ken” Barbie dolls around either. This compares that there is no masculinity as well as how poor these two girls are since the dolls only have few clothing. As a result, these girls have to share . Before long, they have an opportunity to buy some barbie dolls when there is a sale on burnt dolls due to warehouse that caught on fire. “And if the prettiest doll, Barbie's MOD'ern cousin Francie with real eyelashes, eyelash brush included, has a left foot melted a little—so?”(16). The girls do not care or take notice to the damage, they are grateful for what they have.

Helen Keller is a name that almost everyone in our country knows. She is famous, not only for her unfortunate and extremely limiting disabilities, but for the unrelenting effort she put forward to overcome them. Despite being both blind and deaf, she was eager to learn. In this excerpt from The Story of My Life, Keller tells the story of the day that the fire for learning was lit inside of her. Through her writing, Keller uses tone, perspective, and emotional appeal to present her feelings to readers.

The dolls of the narrator are chosen to represent her childhood because dolls are a children’s toy and commonly associated with small girls. The fact that these dolls are being put away “like dead children in a chest” show that the narrator is being forced to face reality, as the dolls become children, and that this reality that she is facing has caused the death of her childhood, or the loss of her child innocence. This is further reinforced by the fact that she will “carry this chest with her until she marries”. As the poem progresses the narrator speaks of the “little trickle of blood” that the narrator physically experiences as a women that show she really is going through this loss of her childhood and that she is becoming a women. This shows her full maturity into a woman by the end of the poem when her “she is waiting for each hour to release

What would you do if you had a deaf, blind, and mute person in your life? Helen Keller was a person who was deaf, blind, and mute, became blind when she was only 18 months old. She had a disease called “Brain Fever”. Kate, Helen’s mother found out that Helen was blind and deaf when she snapped her finger in front of Helen’s face and Helen didn’t even flinch. Helen became mute because if you can’t hear anything or see anything you can’t learn anything.

I could feel the mirror closing behind him. All the cerulean swirls losing their magic as my blood spilled out from underneath me, into the wet, stone below.

In the third chapter of Keller's book Every Good Endeavor, he further develops his ideas behind working through cultivation. His reference to the book of Genesis confirms this with the tasks God gave us in the beginning. God could have finished his work fully and completed with nothing left for man to accomplish. However, God assigned tasks for Adam and Eve to do, such as filling the Earth and subduing it. Keller explains subdue in this context "indicates that even in its original , unfilled form, God made the world to need work.” Further in the chapter he calls us "representatives” of God. We are designed to finish his work because we are the only ones on this earth created in his image to do so. He expands on this through the fourth chapter

It also supports your thesis purpose. In order to do so, each paragraph should be unified, coherent and well developed. A paragraph is unified when each sentenced relates directly to the main idea of the paragraph. A paragraph is coherent when sentences are smoothly and logically connected to one another. The paragraphs that are well developed if it contains support.

The central theme of A Doll House is a true marriage us a joining of equals. The entire play centers in on the crumbling of a

The doll which is blind in one eye represents the mother who was too blind to see that her child is carrying a burden too and that her child is capable of making her own decisions. The mother must respect her daughter’s choice with what she believes in life and understand that in moving on to a new life, she cannot dictate what her child should remember and what her child should forget. The other doll with missing arm and leg represents the child because at first, she was not free to make her own decisions. This also signifies that the child is still dependent to her mother. The child still needs guidance from her mother because she cannot stand on her

Every night I heard the doll saying “Why did you give me away? I was your best friend. Why did you give…” over and over. In the morning, I asked Grace to tell me any other stories about Belle. She told me how she taught Belle how to walk and talk. I shrieked, “What?! It is a doll. It does not have the capability to do such things!” Grace fired back, “Yes, it does! Belle doesn 't like you. She wants you out of her house. I kept telling her that you can’t leave because you’re my mom, but she’s careless. I don 't know