1March 3, 887, which is a very important day for Helen. On this day, the family invited a teacher for her-Miss Anne Sullivan. Anne taught her to write and sign language. When Mr. Janagno of Perkins School for the Blind was surprised to read Helen's complete and true letter in French, he wrote: "No one can imagine how surprised and happy I am. I have always believed in her ability, but it is hard to believe that she has achieved such good results in three months of study. In the United States, it takes a year for others to reach this level. " At this time, Helen was only 9 years old.
However, it is almost impossible for a person to communicate with others in a silent and dark world because every exit has been tightly closed to him. But Helen is a miracle. She went from hell to heaven step by step, but the difficulty of this journey exceeded anyone's imagination. When she learns pronunciation, she needs to use her sense of touch to understand the trembling of her throat and the movement of her mouth when she pronounces, which is often inaccurate. To this end, Helen has to practice her pronunciation repeatedly, sometimes for hours at a time. Failure and fatigue made her haggard, and a strong man shed tears of despair for it. However, she never flinched, worked hard day and night, and finally was able to speak "Dad", "Mom" and "Sister" fluently. The whole family gave her a surprise hug, and even her favorite dog seemed to understand her call and ran to lick her hand.
1894 In the summer, Helen joined the American Association for the Advancement of Language Teaching for the Deaf and was arranged to study mathematics, science, French and German in Humason School for the Deaf. Within a few months, she will be able to talk freely in German. In less than a year, she finished reading the German work William Tell. Teachers who teach French don't know sign language letters and have to dictate; Nevertheless, Helen quickly mastered French and read the novel The Forced Doctor twice. During her stay in new york, Helen made many friends in the literary world. Mark Twain read her wonderful short stories and they established a sincere friendship. Dr. Holmes read her a collection of poems, Rolling Beans, in his quiet home by the Merrimack River. When he read the last two pages, Holmes put a slave statue in her hand. The chain on the crouching slave just fell off, and Holmes said to Helen, "She is the liberator of your thoughts." The doctor refers to Miss Anne. Helen's excitement, beautiful thoughts and feelings about the world, meaningful deep love and down-to-earth pursuit are deeply rooted in her heart like the seeds of spring. Helen said confidently from an early age, "One day, I will go to college! I'm going to Harvard University! " This day has finally arrived. Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University arranged her entrance examination in a special way. I saw that she skillfully touched the raised braille with her hand and then answered the question with a typewriter. After 9 hours, she passed all the subjects, and she got excellent grades in English and German. Helen began her college life eagerly.
1June, 904, Helen graduated from Radcliffe College with honors. Two years later, she was appointed as the chairman of the Massachusetts Committee for the Blind and began to do social work for the blind. She receives visiting blind people every day, and she has to reply to letters flying in like snow. Later, she toured all over the United States to promote the implementation of education programs and treatment programs for the deaf and blind. 192 1, the American Foundation for the Blind was finally established. Helen is one of the * * * of this organization, and she has been working hard to strengthen the work of the foundation. In the busy work, she never put down her pen and finished 14 books. My Life, Song of the Stone Wall, out of the dark, Optimism, etc. Have had a worldwide impact. Helen's last work was Teacher, for which she collected notes and letters for 20 years, but all these and three-quarters of the manuscripts were burned in a fire, as well as the Braille library and exquisite craft gifts from various countries. A different person might be disheartened, but Helen learned a lesson from the painful experience and was determined to finish it. She sat quietly in front of the typewriter and began another difficult trek. 10 years later, Helen finished the manuscript. She is very happy that this book is a gift for Teacher Anne, and Teacher Anne is very proud of it.
1956165438+1October 15 The curtain on a plaque erected at the gate of Perkins School for the Blind in America was lifted by Helen with trembling hands, which read: In memory of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Messi. This is not an ordinary plaque, but for those who have written outstanding chapters in the history of human civilization. Indeed, Helen devoted her life to the welfare and education of the blind and won the respect of people all over the world. The United Nations also launched the "Helen Keller" World Campaign. On June 1968, Helen Keller, a deaf-mute blind scholar, writer and educator who wrote a hymn of brilliant life in the history of human civilization, passed away surrounded by flowers. However, her indomitable spirit of struggle and her legendary life will go down in history forever. As the famous writer Mark Twain said, there were two great figures in the19th century, one was Napoleon and the other was Helen Keller.
1On the afternoon of June, 968, Helen Keller died in her sleep at the age of 87. Miss Keller was deaf and blind at 18 months after birth, but miraculously finished her life.
Helen Keller 1880 was born in mbia, Tuscany, in northern Alabama. When she was one and a half years old, a serious illness deprived her of her sight and hearing, and then she lost the ability to express herself in words. However, in this dark and lonely world, she actually learned to read and speak, and graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in the United States, becoming a well-known writer and educator proficient in five languages: English, French, German, Latin and Greek. She traveled all over the United States and the world to raise money for schools for the blind and devoted her life to the welfare and education of the blind. She has won the praise of people all over the world and won many government awards.
The most important thing for a deaf-mute to learn to read is for out of the dark to move towards the light. From learning to read to learning to read requires more perseverance than ordinary people. Helen observed Miss Sullivan's lips with her fingers and understood her throat trembling, mouth movements and facial expressions with her sense of touch, which was often inaccurate. In order to pronounce a word or sentence well, she has to practice it again and again. Helen never gives in to failure.
From Helen's education at the age of 7 to her admission to Radcliffe College 14, she wrote many letters to her relatives, friends and classmates. These letters either describe what she saw and heard on the trip, or pour out her feelings, and some people repeat a story she just heard, which is very rich in content. When she was in college, many textbooks didn't have Braille, and the contents of the books in her hand had to be spelled by others, so she spent much more time previewing her lessons than other students. While other students were playing and singing outside, she spent a lot of time preparing her lessons.
Helen can achieve such high academic performance in out of the dark not only because of her perseverance, but also because of her teacher Sullivan's follow-up teaching. She said that "the day when my teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan came to my home was the most important day in my life" and "she liberated my spirit". It was her teacher who taught her to read and know that everything has a name, and it was also the teacher who taught her what an abstract noun like "love" is. Helen became ignorant and surly after her childhood illness and disability, and almost became a hopeless waste. But it is indeed a miracle that she became a literate college student. It can be said that half of this miracle was created by Helen's teacher, Anne Sullivan, and it was the fruit of her lofty dedication and scientific educational methods. No matter what Miss Sullivan teaches Helen, she always tells it clearly with a nice story or a poem. Her educational experience is very rich and her educational methods are different. She never locked Helen in her room for strict classroom education.
Helen overcame the mental pain caused by physical defects with tenacious perseverance. She loves life. She can ride horses, ski and play chess. She also likes theatrical performances and visits museums and places of interest, from which she can gain knowledge. At the age of 2 1, she collaborated with her teacher to publish her first novel, The Story of My Life. In the next 60 years, she wrote 14 books.
In the 20th century, a unique individual life shocked the world in her brave way. She is Helen Keller, a woman who lives in the dark but brings light to mankind, a lonely weak woman who has spent 88 years of life but survived 87 years of dull, silent and speechless. However, it is such a person who is claustrophobic in the world of blind and deaf people. He graduated from Degilliff College of Harvard University, spent all his life running around and set up a charity for the disabled, and was selected as one of the top ten American hero idols in the 20th century by Time magazine. Creating this miracle depends on an indomitable heart. Helen accepted the challenge of life, embraced the world with love, faced difficulties with amazing perseverance, and finally found light in the dark. Finally, she extended her loving hands to the whole world. Helen Keller was blind, deaf and dumb since she was a child. She touched with her hands, tasted with her mouth and sniffed with her nose, and became familiar with the dark and silent world around her. It seems that the restrictions are too great, and she can't help it. How do you teach a deaf person? She can't talk. How do you know what she needs? She can't see or hear, but how on earth did she know where you were? Helen Keller didn't give in to this cold life mentally. Unable to curse and complain, she had to shake her body violently to lose her temper with her parents and people around her, so as to show her disheartened mood. It seems that she is destined to spend her life in despair in an isolated and silent world.
However, an extraordinary young woman came into her life. This man can be regarded as a strongman in life. This is Anne Sullivan.
Helen Keller's parents hired her to eliminate her daughter's loneliness and appease her anger, because all this has made them disheartened and depressed. Anne Sullivan is fully aware of her difficulties and her task is almost hopeless, but she is determined to teach this child and let her communicate with the world that she can't touch. This is a battle against the obvious impossible. Its frustration and disappointment can make the strongest person frustrated, but she silently endured it for months.
She refused to fail.
Suddenly one day, when too many disappointments were depressing and hope never seemed to come, Helen made a voice of understanding. All this is beyond people's expectation. After her first reaction, she opened like a bud.
Helen Keller's potential was excavated by another belief in her heart and began to develop. She made slow progress, suffered a lot, and sometimes stopped, but she continued to work hard and eventually became a respected writer and speaker, becoming a shining example of perseverance and courage in all countries of the world.
She can easily be comforted and "curse God to die", but she has different choices. She wants to overcome her shortcomings, but she doesn't give in to them.
Huang Meilian was born in Tainan, and his father is a priest. At birth, due to the doctor's negligence, her brain nerve was seriously damaged, so that the muscles of her face and limbs lost their normal functions. At that time, her parents limped around looking for a famous doctor with her in their arms, and all they got were merciless answers. She couldn't speak, her mouth tilted to one side and her mouth was watering.
grow up
At the age of six, she couldn't walk. My mother heard that people with cerebral palsy are still crawling on the ground in their twenties and thirties. My mother couldn't imagine her future and tried desperately to strangle her to commit suicide. Surprisingly, when mom and dad took good care of her and prayed for her constantly, her limbs gradually became strong, and she could eat by herself and stand by herself. Although she was limping, she finally took the first step in her life.
As a child, she had to face many strange eyes because she could not play and run freely like other children. Some children will laugh at her and hit her with their hands, stones or sticks. When they saw her trembling or crying with anger, the children became more proud.
In these difficult growth processes, her parents' love and support, as well as the strength given by Jesus, which she believed in, took her through every difficulty in her life. Another teacher, teacher Ma Zhijiang, the head teacher of grade two in primary school, gave her encouragement and support in her young mind and made her regain her confidence. These are all deep gratitude to her.
Let the dream take off
What was Huang Meilian's childhood wish? She said that from the second grade of primary school, she was determined to be a painter, and in the fourth grade, she wanted to be a writer. How did this will come about? It turned out that when she was in the second grade, she met a teacher-Ma Zhijiang. After seeing Huang Meilian's works, she spoke highly of Huang Meilian's artistic talent. Teacher Ma's appreciation has become the driving force for the development of painting. Later, she studied painting harder and went to the art hall step by step.
Going to school is a terrible nightmare for Huang Meilian. In the first grade, she couldn't hold a pen. Her mother always holds her hand and spends most of her time teaching her to write. After hard practice, she finally learned to write a year later. /kloc-At the age of 0/4, her family immigrated to the United States, entered the City University of Los Angeles, and then transferred to the Art College of California State University in Los Angeles. Now she has got a doctorate and has become a painter.
If you want to ask, did Huang Meilian's childhood wishes and dreams come true? Then the answer is yes. Huang Meilian not only won the title of Doctor of Literature, but also held many exhibitions, and his paintings were well received. What about her writer dream? Huang Meilian has written many columns in Cosmic Light magazine and other newspapers, and has collected three books so far. Such a "dream come true" is really enviable! However, as you can imagine, her efforts may be one hundred times that of others! However, she did it.
What new hopes or ideas does she have for her job? She said that she hoped more people would appreciate her paintings. She wants everyone to appreciate her paintings because she is an artist, not because she is lame.
Work and life
With the title of Doctor of Literature in Huang Meilian, why did you come all the way from the United States to live alone? She said: If I stay in the arms of my American parents and make a living by selling paintings, I will never really step into society and experience a diversified life. Besides, I also hope to do something for my friends in Taiwan Province Province. "
Talking about my current job, she said that painting, writing and teaching painting are my current jobs. She said that she worked eighteen hours a day and wrote three or four thousand words every night. But painting is her favorite. The colorful world makes her fly like a bird.
Ask her what fun it is to work. She said: "The greatest enjoyment of my life is watching the painting flow out of my hand. So I don't paint when I'm sad, and I don't touch painting when I have no inspiration or feelings. I didn't start painting until I found my feeling or color, so basically, when I paint, it's my happiest time. Even if I revise it over and over again, I can still draw. "
What do you think of Huang Meilian's winning the top ten outstanding young people? She said: "I am very happy, and I am also very happy that others have affirmed me, but she is more grateful to God, who accompanied me through all the smooth or difficult days."
Do you know what leisure life is like in Huang Meilian? Her favorite leisure ways are reading, watching art exhibitions, watching movies and traveling. Chatting with friends is a great enjoyment in her life. Like other girls, she likes snacks, McDonald's and some novel foods. She is very hospitable and often invites friends to taste her creative dishes and drinks. Jacky Cheung is her idol. Whenever she is mentioned, she dances with excitement.
Live the color of life
With Huang Meilian's achievements, it is difficult for normal people to achieve it, not to mention that she is a patient with severe cerebral palsy. What is the secret of her "winning"? Please see the following interview record:
Q: Many people will give up or feel inferior when they are frustrated. Can you tell me about your experience or feelings?
A: Inferiority is one of the normal emotions, but if you feel too inferior, it will form a morbid state. I seem to feel inferior more easily than ordinary people, but I have accepted myself, so I am used to the eyes of others. I can refuse some bad eyes, which won't hurt me at all. Plus, I have faith, which makes me more confident, so I won't feel too inferior.
Q: How do you usually overcome difficulties? What are the reasons for supporting you to strive for the top?
A: Usually my steps to overcome difficulties are:
First of all, pray to God, calm down and reflect.
Find a reliable and capable friend to talk about your difficulties.
Third, face and solve problems.
Fourth, if you can't solve it, just wait and relax.
Q: Please tell me about an important turning point in your life.
A: For me, every day is a turning point because new ideas and practices come into my life every day.
Q: Do you feel happy? What do you think can make people live life?
A: Basically, I am a happy person, but sometimes it is inevitable that my mood will fluctuate. I am balanced, but strong. For me, people who live simply will be very happy and live the color of life. This simplicity does not mean not to study or fight for your own rights, but to keep a childlike innocence to see the world.
There are many stories about Dr. Huang:
Ms. Huang Meilian from Taiwan Province is a patient with congenital cerebral palsy, whose whole body is covered with unusually high tension and she can't speak. However, with her persistence in life and incomparable optimism, Ms. Huang Meilian has achieved one success after another on the road of life. She not only received a doctorate in art from the University of Southern California, but also held her own art exhibitions in various places to show her views and tell people her love for life.
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Because she can't express herself correctly through language, Ms. Huang Meilian always uses pen instead of mouth and writing instead of speaking in every speech. Therefore, people affectionately call her a "writer", that is, this "writer". In a speech in Tainan City, she told people in classic language: I only look at what I have, not what I don't have. ...
At that time, a student asked the lady: Ms. Huang, this is how you grew up. Do you think God is unfair? Do you have any resentment on the journey of life?
For a disabled lady, this question is so sharp and harsh that everyone is afraid that Huang Meilian will feel embarrassed because it will hurt her heart. However, Huang Meilian didn't do this, but smiled, turned around and wrote on the blackboard with chalk: What do I think of myself?
Later, Huang Meilian gave the answer:
First, I'm cute!
Second, my legs are beautiful!
Third, my parents love me very much!
Fourth, God will treat everyone fairly!
Five, I can draw, I can write!
6. I like many lifestyles. ...
meaning
Huang Huang Meilian suddenly wrote dozens of reasons why she loves life. She loves life so justly. Looking at the reasons written on the blackboard, the whole "pen club" was silent, and everyone was moved to tears, and no one said much!
Huang Meilian turned to look at everyone, then turned around and wrote her famous words on the blackboard: I only look at what I have, not what I don't have. ...
The audience gave thunderous applause. ...