The Story of My Life

The Story of My Life
by Hellen Keller
Autobiography

1) Discuss the autobiography so far:
How is it organized? explain. 
Is the writing challenging? explain.
In the Book so far Helen Keller is talking about her life in darkness. At the beginning she talked about some memorable experiences that she had. She had thrown many temper tantrums when she did not get what she wanted or when she did not understand something. Like how everyone communicated through moving lips and not through the types of hand symbols that she used. Once she found her baby sister Mildred in her doll's cradle, so she dumped Mildred out because she was not supposed to be there. Luckily her mother saw and was able to catch Mildred before she hit the ground and would have probably died. Everyone that lived with them knew how Helen communicated and were able to understand her most of the time. It was a very hard life for Helen as she grew up especially because she knew that she was different than everyone. After the first approximately 10 pages of Helen going through some of the memories that she remembered the most she started going trough her life. She started when her parents were looking for a teacher to help her. The book then continues on with her life and what happened as she was there. Once Helen actually locked her teacher in her room and hid the key. Her father then had to carry her out using a latter. 
The writing is not very challenging. It is quite easy to understand and much easier than the book I recently read Pride and Prejudice. I really like the style that she speaks in because it is easy to understand. My mom thinks this is because she is not that good in English seeing that she is deaf, so she cannot hear new and more challenging words and if she does it would be hard for her to pronounce them.
2) What is one unique thing (so far) about your chosen human being for the Living History?  Explain it in detail.
Normally when I think of Helen Keller I see her as a naughty young girl who was always going into tantrums and throwing fits. By reading this book it seems that she was more interested in the world around her than in always throwing temper tantrums. This may be because Helen Keller was the one who wrote the book so she knew when she was actually have a tantrum or not or that she did not really want anyone to know the bad things about her, but that she was interesting in the outside world, and not just throwing tantrums all the time.


I am really enjoying the book about Helen Keller and her Life and I hope to be able to keep reading about her!!!!!