Rhetorical Analysis Of Helen Keller Speech

In the short story, Cathedral by Raymond Carver, the word “blind” acquires different meanings. The unnamed narrator is metaphorically blind; he can look at the surface of everything but not see what is inside. Although the narrator can listen to conversations, he cannot understand the deeper emotional context the conversation might hold, compared to Robert, who is visually impaired but can truly listen and understand. It is not until the end of the story that the narrator metaphorically opens his eyes, with assistance from Robert.

“Helen became an "ambassador for the blind," raising money and lobbying for the sightless. From her first trip to Japan in 1937 until her retirement, she made nine tours around the world and visited 34 countries.” Everywhere she went Helen inspired people with her incredible story and her campaigns for the better treatment of the blind. Keller once said, “‘A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.’” The speeches she gave helped people to understand how to treat those with disabilities. It helped them to realize that they are just normal human beings. Keller’s tours around the world greatly improved the lives of people with

She had to put her thumb on a person's throat, the pointer finger on the person’s lips, and the middle finger on the person’s nose. Helen Keller was both blind and deaf. Being blind is hard enough to overcome, but being blind and deaf is extremely hard to overcome. She couldn’t hear or see anything so she had to rely on her sense of touch to move around. She could not see what was around her and she could not hear what was around her so she had to overcome a lot of obstacles in her life. She finally learned how to talk by the thumb on the throat, pointer finger on the lips, and the middle finger on the nose. She said her first sentence which was “I am not dumb

The main idea of the story is that the language has a great importance in a person’s life, whether a normal person or the one who has lost one or some vital senses. Before the arrival of Anne Sullivan in the life of Helen Keller, her mood was dark all the time because she was unable to communicate to her surrounding world. The story is also showing that learning a language for a deaf and blind person is equally important because in this way they can feel and see the world. Language unveiled a new world to her where she had an opportunity to learn something new which ultimately improved her mood, and changed her thoughts about life. For the first time she realized that “everything had a name, and each name give birth to a new thought” (Eschholz, Alfred, & Clark, 2013)

People who are blind face many different problems in accomplishing everyday activities and becoming an independent individual. Some are able to overcome this issue while others struggle through it in their lives. In “Helen Keller’s Address before the New York Association for the Blind, January 15, 1907” she makes an appeal to the audience that the blind should be helped and made independent so that they can stand up and support themselves. She uses pathos or emotionally packed words, examples and anecdotes and cites from a prominent source to convince her audience that the blind are not helpless, but they are in need of guidance from people who can see in order to live and thrive independently.

She travelled throughout the country and gave several speeches. She encouraged deaf children and adults to strive for their dreams. Some people in the deaf community were upset because she spoke and read lips instead of signing. But Heather continued to speak and encouraged deaf people not to settle but to go beyond their disability.

The individuals that were blind viewed their disability as a liability. In the first video, the girl felt restricted because she didn't know how to operate in the real world. In the second video, the girl felt very overwhelmed when she was in the big store trying to find different things. In the third video, the family felt like they didn't know how the were supposed to live their own lives with their son's disability. However, each situation adapted and learned how to live life in this way.

America’s First Lady of Courage and Picturing History both presented individuals who faced many challenges. Helen Keller, the main focus of the first article, struggled with deafness as well as blindness, while Mathew Brady struggled financially. In the case of Helen Keller, the article stated that, “Helen’s parents knew they had to do something about her wild behavior. They hired Annie Sullivan to tutor her.” This was a critical moment in Helen’s life, as Annie helped Helen to learn how to more appropriately communicate with others as well as be able to spread the word that those who struggle with various disabilities could still manage to do great things.

The Helen Keller National Center had four different collaborations. These organizations in collaboration with HKNC were the American Association of the Deaf-Blind (AADB), Texas Tech University, Gallaudet University, and the American Foundation for the Blind to make this training possible. There were two women, Suzanne Ressa from HKNC, and Amy Parker - a former HKNC regional representative and graduate from Texas Tech University with an Ed.D. - that led the trainings. Lastly, there were six DeafBlind young adults who participated. These participants were from all over the United States. These individuals were Jason Corning from Wisconsin, Kelvin Crosby from California, Virginia Jordan from Georgia, Crystal Morales from Texas, and Divya Goel and George Stern from Florida (Deaf-Blind Young Adults in Action,

We often think that when someone is blind, deaf, mute, or in loss of any sense, that they are missing out on something. We tend to feel bad or them. What most of us don’t know, or maybe just haven’t thought of, is that although they are missing out on one of the many gifts of life, that gives them the capability to see things from a different perspective. The narrator in the short story The Cathedral by Raymond Carver was a victim of this thought. One may believe that the victim would be Robert, the blind man in this story, but using the New Criticism approach to analyze this story, you see that the narrator is the actual victim. A victim who is trapped in believing he’s blessed but not happy, a man who isn’t blind but cannot truly see the way the blind man can. Like Tupac Shakur once said “I would rather be stricken blind, than to live without expression of mind.”

According to Helen Keller being able to literally see worth nothing when you are mentally blind that is, not being able to see things beyond the surface. The theme of sight versus blindness in the tragic play “Oedipus the king” by Sophocles is a metaphor, with blindness symbolising knowledge, light and truth while sight symbolises ignorance, darkness and lie. This metaphor and irony of sight and blindness is the building block of the play “Oedipus the king”, with central figures Oedipus, King of Thebes and Teiresias the blind prophet. References to sight and blindness, both metaphorical and literal are frequent throughout the play. Usually, the image

“It would have been difficult to find a happier child than I was has I lay in my crib at the close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought me, and for the first time longed for a knew day to come” Most would not be able to live there life without seeing. Well, Helen could not see, and could not hear. Yet, she still managed to be an author, a political activist, and was the very first deaf blind person achieve a bachelor degree of arts. Many would struggle with doing one of those things. Not to mention all 3. She also did without being able to see or hear. Further proving her courageous, and will to succeed. As well as changing the country in showing even with major setbacks, you will accomplish anything you want. Helen Keller was great proof of courage, and helping others with the same setbacks you have. Maybe deafness and blindness were blessings. They gave her to ability to show anyone, (even with setbacks) you can do anything if you really

The story “Cathedral” demonstrates that lack of sight does not necessarily prevent one from perceiving things as they are, or live their life to the fullest. In the story, a middle-age blind man, who is a friend to the narrator’s wife, and used to be her boss at one point, visits the narrator and his wife. The narrator has never interacted with blind people before, and all he knew about blind people was what he had seen on television. Blind people are stereotypically portrayed on television as slow moving, dull people, who never laugh. Based on this perception, the narrator was reluctant to meet the blind man and doubted whether they were going to connect. This is evident when the narrator states, “I wasn’t enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me” (Carver 1).

In addition to employing evidence to her argument’s advantage, Keller also included a personal anecdote to inform the audience of the blind person’s capability. She believes that if beadwork was incorporated into the schools for the blind then “it could have been made a profitable industry for the sightless”. She recalls the type of beadworks she saw inside the shops such as “purses, bags, lamp-shades and dress-trimmings..under proper supervision this beadwork could be made by the blind”. This demonstrates that the blind people could obtain a position in the industry. She includes her personal anecdote to address the audience’s doubt of whether or not there would be any available place in the industry for the blind.

We read an essay that was made by Helen Keller. She was a woman in the 1800’s, who at a young age lost her sight and hearing. The essay she made was about what she would do if she was to get her sight back for 3 days. Helen Keller did what any person who truly appreciated their sight would do, she indulged in the beauties of life. I couldn’t imagine being born blind or deaf let alone it happening all of a sudden when she had already been alive and well. If I had 3 days left to see like Helen Keller in this essay, I too would try to indulge in the beauties of life. The first thing I would do if i had 3 days left with my sight would be to spend as much time with close friends as I could. With it not being the 1800’s either it would be much