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By: Helen Keller (1880-1968)
“The World I Live In” by Helen Keller is a remarkable and moving autobiography that provides a unique perspective into the life of someone who was both deaf and blind. Keller’s written voice is incredibly powerful and offers readers insight into the challenges she faced, as well as her determination and resilience.
Throughout the book, Keller shares her thoughts and feelings about her surroundings, her experiences, and the way in which she interacts with the world around her. Her reflections on language, communication, and the importance of connecting with others are both profound and thought-provoking.
One of the most striking aspects of the book is Keller’s ability to convey the beauty and richness of the world despite her sensory limitations. Through her vivid descriptions and poetic prose, Keller transports readers into her world, allowing them to see, hear, and feel things the way she does.
Overall, “The World I Live In” is a captivating and inspiring read that will leave readers with a greater appreciation for the power of the human spirit and the resiliency of the human soul. Helen Keller’s story is one that will stay with you long after you finish reading the book.
Book Description:
The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams.
My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different. All my comings and goings turn on the hand as on a pivot. It is the hand that binds me to the world of men and women. The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter. With the dropping of a little word from another’s hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life. Helen Keller, quoted from her essay, The Seeing Hand
