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Eternal friendship
There are lots of people with true friendship for all lifelong. Also some people swear and keep their love forever each other. Relationship of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan is the same case. As you know Helen Adams Keller was an American author and lecturer. She was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880 and died on June 1, 1968. When Helen was nineteen months old, she was stricken with a damaging brain fever that left her blind and deaf. There was no way she could be educated until she was seven years old, when a teacher named Annie Mansfield Sullivan came to teach her to read the Braille system and to write with a specially constructed typewriter. Annie was almost blind herself from a fever, except her fever was different. Helen spent her life like untamed horse until she met Annie. Annie forced Helen to be kept separate from all the family and started to teach and care for her. Annie believed only she could tame her because she also had visual handicaps and got painful childhood. Annie needed a job for a living and Helen lived in the dark world. They felt keenly the necessity of each other. Annie could understand Helen more than anyone else. At first, they had such a difficult time in doing something together. Annie was the first person who treated Helen as a human being. Helen got known the world through Annie. Annie followed Helen for her lifetime and became her eyes, ears, and mouth. Later, It is said Annie took wealth and honor by using smart Helen. However Helen made a pretext whenever the world criticized Annie. They lived together for fifty years. Their friendship was like love of couple, it was relation of the best partner. Also, It was a total abnegation of parents’ life.
When Helen was older, she helped blind and deaf students by raising enough money to educate them. One day Annie went completely blind. She tried to be cheerful but smiling was a hard thing for Annie to do. On October 19, 1936, Annie Sullivan died. Helen felt like she was all alone, again, just like when she was little. Helen helped to build schools to educate deaf, blind, and mute students. She wrote books to tell blind, deaf, and mute people that they are just ordinary people. She wrote books to tell people not to tease or hurt people who had disabilities because they were not any different from them. Helen made sign language better and easier to understand by redoing it using her own ideas. If it weren't for Helen Keller, deaf and blind students wouldn't have as much education as they do today. Helen's life was so different from others but she accomplished so much. I think Helen did really great job. Without Annie, Helen wouldn't come into being, also without Helen, Annie would live lonely for his old days. I was so impressed they understood and trusted heartily each other without a little doubt until died. I consider if there is someone who trust and understand each other for a long time. It is said life is short. It seems to be so lonely thing to lead life without such a person.
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