Quotes From The Most Important Day By Hellen Keller

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While reading “The Most Important Day" by Hellen Keller, we learn about how Hellen Keller learned important skills. In the excerpt, we learn that Keller was a blind and deaf child who once lived their life not knowing or understanding the way things worked. Until she met Anne Mansfield Sullivan, who taught her how to use her words and showed her how to feel important emotions. Anne Mansfield-Sullivan changed Keller’s life in many ways. Usually, a child associates a name with an object by looking at it, but for Keller, it is different. She had to feel the object, then feel Sullivan’s hand. In paragraph 5, Keller states, “Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word “d-o-l-l.”” This is important because it shows the reader how Sullivan teaches Keller. Later, Sullivan tries to prove the point that even if they have the same name, they could be the same thing. In paragraph 6, Keller states, “Miss Sullivan put my big rag doll into my lap also, spelled “d-o-l-l"...” She shows her distinct types of dolls later to prove that even though they are different, they have the same …show more content…

As soon as Sullivan comes in, she already changes the life Keller has been living, just with a simple hug. In paragraph 4, Keller states, “...held close in the arms of her who had come to reveal all things to me and, more than all things else, to love me,” stating she is already letting go of the bitterness and anger to feel loved. In paragraph 8, Keller states, “Then my eyes filled with tears; for I realized what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow.” Though these are not the best feelings to have, they show Keller changing mentally. Maybe even opening slightly. New emotions are far better than the old

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