Title Languages, colors, voices, shapes, sounds, objects, speaking, hearing, seeing are all senses

“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

The Miracle Worker display that the power to communicate with others is foundational in nearly every person’s life. Annie teaches Helen to express her feelings, ask questions, learn about the world and everything in it. Until Helen accepts the tools of communication that Annie has given her, due to her unfitness to see or hear, she lives in near total isolation. Annie, who was herself subterfuge for much of her life but can now see, teaches Helen using the technique she learned as a student at the Perkins Institute for the Blind. She spends weeks teaching her letter combinations with her fingers to form words. However, Helen doesn’t know what a word is. She understands that the external worldly concern exists because she can feel, taste, and

In Chaim Potok’s book, The Chosen, blindness is a recurring theme. Although there are some instances of physical blindness, such as Billy in the hospital, most of the situations in this book are of the figurative sense. In these circumstances, the person has good physical vision, however, due to their previous experiences, they are not able to see the true situation.

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.

Poverty is a prevailing aspect in the novel because it shows the hardships of the characters and attracts the readers. It also gives more harsh detail into what life was like for migrant farm workers. George and Lennie, the two main characters in the novel, are very impoverished and struggle wi getting o bas necessities s such as food, water, and clothing. Instead of

Within his book, Anthony Doerr focused on two main characters, Marie-Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig. Marie-Laure was a blind French girl who lived in Paris with her father, who was one of the only people who treated her as a normal person and considered her disability an obstacle she could be able to conquer. He helped her develop skills to manage her condition in various ways such as making her wooden models of their neighborhood to be able to navigate the streets, and teaching her braille. Marie-Laure was very dependent on her father and his assistance, and when they moved to Saint-Malo where he was arrested and taken to a German prison, Marie-Laure was left hopeless and devastated. She began helping her great uncle, who she lived with, and his housekeeper, Madame Manec, with the French resistance group they were organizing.

Showing ideas about Eliza’s problems how she begins with limited freedom then shows her strong will and changes into a Cinderella like character. When meeting the people who will be in their future who they soon meet while still living in the society standards of poverty.

Throughout the story, handicaps distracted the characters, and this affects their personality and individuality. For example, the character George has a

Sarah and her children discuss problems on the farm. This is because Sarah is lower than Edna on the social ladder. Sarah may not be poor, but she is not wealthy like the Pontelliers and thus must work. This makes her a much more necessary part of the household. So her choices and opinion are much more valued to her family then Edna’s opinions would be to her family. Edna may be able to do things that Sarah cannot do, such as throw dinner parties, or even attend them, but because Sarah works she gets more respect and does not have to end up committing suicide like Edna does.

The central conflicts of the story are Man vs. Man and Man vs. Society and these are due highly to race, culture, and societal problems. The setting of the story took place in the 1940’s or 50’s when the two main characters were eight years old. Twyla has very much settled into a warm home and family life, whereas Roberta has had quite the opposite.

The story is based on a child named Emily that has a physical disability. Emily lived in a family of five children. "She always had a reason why we should stay home" (Olsen 601). Emily is lonely. When she was a toddler, she was left in a day care so Emily's mom could bring income to the house. Emily is a child that, as many others, grew up mostly on day care. Emily was

Thomas Hardy once said: “ There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there” The inability to believe the truth about the environment around us leads us to have views of the world false form the true state of reality. The Miracle Worker is a play that is centered around blindness both physical blindness as well as the blindness created by our misconceptions about the universe. This is a problem faced by most characters in The Miracle Worker in relation to any of their beliefs about any of their relatives. Captain and Kate Keller’s blind views of their Children disable them from being effective parents or teachers for their offspring’s. Kate Keller’s relationship with her daughter Helen is a loving one, yet is not a relationship that

I chose this example because it presents a women with two physical disabilities. In a life or death situation, her senses get the best of her, but it is unexpected on how she keeps herself alive. Early in the movie Hush, Maddie lives a different life where she cannot speak nor hear. Her best way of communication is the feeling of touch and sight. Some modifications include a very loud and

She tells the story of her life to present the examples in her life and to show her own uniqueness. Keller proved that her deafness and blindness would not stop her from being an extraordinary person. She also wrote to express her survival of her disabilities and how she overcame them. Keller’s purpose was to inspire people to endure. She communicated to disabled people especially to help them realize what they are capable of.