Helen Keller: The Story of My Life
1 In the dreary month of February came the illness which closed my ears and eyes and plunged me into the unconsciousness of a newborn baby. They called it acute congestion of the stomach and brain. The doctor thought I could not live. Early one morning, however, the fever left me as suddenly and mysteriously as it had come. There was great rejoicing in the family that morning, but no one, not even the doctor, knew that I should never see or hear again.
2 Gradually I got used to the silence and darkness that surrounded me and forgot that it had ever been different, until she came, my teacher, who was to set my spirit free. On that eventful day, I stood on the porch, dumb, expectant.
3 Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white
darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without
compass or sounding line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbor was. “Light! Give me light!” was the wordless cry of my soul.
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