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1、AbstractWading through the modern history of America, people could savor the true meaning of life from the up-and-down life experience of eminent persons, the human spirit and stature reflected from them could give people a deeper understanding of the valuable life. Living such social background of

2、America, Helen Keller had created her own miracles from tragedy to triumph. This thesis attempts to analysis three great women in Three Days to See, the autobiography of Helen Keller with the aim to shed some light to people about how to make their life more colorful and meaningful. It also spurs on

3、 those people in trouble to strive for their own happiness.Key words: Three Days to See ; Helen Keller ; Anne Sullivan ; Kate Adams Heller摘要海伦凯勒，美国一位伟大的盲聋女性以她顽强不屈的精神及作为作家和政治家、演讲家所取得的巨大的成就震惊了全世界。假如给我三天光明是海伦凯勒的早期自传著作，具有浓厚的自传文学特色。本文分析了假如给我三天光明中的三位女性：海伦凯勒，安妮沙利文，海伦凯勒的母亲。本文旨在通过对这三位女性研究来分析如何才能在困境中找寻到生命的光明。

4、同时也具有激烈正处於困境中的人勇往直前的社会意义。关键词：假如给我三天光明 海伦凯勒 安妮沙利文 凯特亚当斯海勒 Analysis of Three Great Women in Three Days to See Introduction There are many famous persons influencing the world from generation to generation in the American history, one of who is Helen Keller. In the 19th and 20th century respectively, s

5、he created her own miracles through her permanent struggle against her misfortune, even today there are millions of people who have been influenced by her extraordinary life experience and the spirit reflected by their prominent achievement. Helen managed to overcome the double handicaps of blindnes

6、s and deafness and took an active part in the life of the world. The book Three Days to See is considered one of her representative works, which gives a general account of her mind and the call of the soul. Three Days to See reflects some aspects, which led to its success and made it benefited from

7、everlasting perseverance. Helen Keller is pursuing for a better and normal life, life means everlasting perseverance for her. Helen Keller managed to overcome all kinds of difficulties and grasped five different languages. The beginning step was extremely hard for her to make an articulate speech, b

8、ut she screwed up her courage to practice much more diligently. It turned out that her successful career benefited from her speech. When discussing famous persons in the history, it can hardly be avoided to taking about their social background. In accordance with her autobiographies, readers can fin

9、d out that Helen Keller has some special aspects. All these can boil down to different social environment and personal beliefs. Together with Anne Sullivan, Helen had visited numerous famous people, who had overwhelming influence on her later life. Helens frequent speech and charitable career led to

10、 her optimistic attitude and open-minded characteristics. The distinctive life experiences had given Helen different natures and unique outlooks on the adversity, which had a good influence on her later life. To some extent, Helens life experience could be considered to be a gigantic treasure house.

11、 This thesis focuses on three main women in Three Days to See: Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan and Kate Heller. All of these women have some special shinning points, which deserve readers to learn from generation to generation. This thesis is made up of six parts: the first part is a brief introduction

12、of Helen Keller and her novel Three Days to See. Then the second part is the analysis of Helen Keller from four aspects: her love for life, her persistence in learning new things and her devotion in charity activities. After that, the third part is about Helen Kellers private tutor Anne Sullivan, wh

13、ich focuses on her qualities of dedicated and patient, professional and responsible. Then the next pat of this thesis is about Kate Hellers decisive and her positive attitude towards life. Based on the analysis of three main women in Three Days to See, the fourth part of this thesis is enlightenment

14、 from them. Last but not least, the fifth part is the conclusion of the whole thesis. 1. Analysis of Helen 1.1. Love life Helen had created miracles based on her relentless struggle with adversity, she accepted the challenge of life and embraced the world with whole compassion and aspiration, and th

15、erefore she successfully composed the psalm of life. One could achieve nothing only having a dream without action. And the main reasons why Helen has been remembered are that she had successfully actualized her dreams into action and cherished her once-only life experience. Life is so valuable that

16、it needs people take full advantage of the life sometimes at cost of their life. Only such a way could they compose the psalm of life. In the novel of Three Days to See, Helen said How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note? I who cannot

17、 see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough, shaggy bark of a pine. In the spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud the first sign of aw

18、akening Nature after her winters sleep. I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me. Occasionally, if I am very fortunate, I place my hand gently on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a

19、bird in full song. I am delighted to have the cool waters of a brook rush thought my open finger. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. To me the page ant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, the action of which streams thro

20、ugh my finger tips. For the above, it is not difficult to find out that although Helen was suffering and torturing from unimaginable tribulations during her life, she still takes life for granted and know one day they must die, but she usually pictures that day as far as in the future, the life is a

21、ll but unimaginable when she is in buoyant health, and she seldom thinks the values of the life. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So she goes about her petty tasks, hardly aware of her listless attitude toward life. Helen extraordinary pursuit of her dream is detailed portrayed in Three Day

22、s to See. Her determination to overcome handicapped hinder is never forgotten by people. In the complicated and complex world, most people make themselves busy in earning money for a living and they ignore what they really want in the depth of their heart. They only think how they earn money for a l

23、iving to enjoy a comfortable life despite of their health. Provided each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life, it would be a blessing. Darkness would make him more appreciate of sight, silence would teach him the joys of sound, and abnormal

24、 state of mind would emphasize the importance of a clear and sober mind. In addition, the soul calls for ones efforts to strive for happiness. Perhaps one can not control his job, but he could make other changes in his life. To some extent, determination is regarded as a motivation to encourage suff

25、ering people to move ahead. Helen was famous for her everlasting perseverance, for she always believes that life is limited but ones spirit stature would be eternal in the history of the world, history is fair and it has granted them with great reputation in the whole world. 1.2. Persistence in lear

26、ning Helen Adams Keller was born on 27June 1880 in Tuscumbia, a small rural town in Northwest Alabama, USA. She was an American political activist and lecturer, and she was the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in Harvard University. As a Prolific author, Keller was well trav

27、eled and was outspoken in her opposition to war. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Wobblier, she campaigned for womens suffrage, workers rights, and socialism, as well as many other leftist causes. How could a disabled people like her get such great achievement during her life? One

28、of the significant points is her persistence in learning. Three Days to See can be seen as Helens biography. In this novel, Helen describes her life. Helens biography imitates real life and describes most of her life based on facts. There is nothing artificial in her language. After reading several

29、different version of Helens biography written by others, the author of the paper can feel the sincerity of her. There is little difference among all the works, all the important events about her are nearly the same. However, fiction is inevitable in some little details too “In her account of her ear

30、ly education, Miss Keller is not giving a scientifically accurate record of her life,.That is why her teachers records may be found to differ in some particulars from Miss Kellers account.”(John Albert Macy,2008: 244) Actually, it is really difficult for a blind and deaf person to recall all her exp

31、eriences in her childhood accurately; therefore, the differences are acceptable. On that busy first day I should also view the small simple things of my home. I want to see the warm colors in the rugs under my feet, the pictures on the walls, the intimate trifles that transform a house into home. My

32、 eyes would rest respectfully on the books in raised type which I have read, but they would be more eagerly interested in the printed books which seeing people can read, for during the long night of my life the books I have read and those which have been read to me have built themselves into a great

33、 shining lighthouse, revealing to me the deepest channels of human life and the human spirit.In the first day, Helen wants to use some time to rest her eyes respectfully on books, from which reads can find out that how much love she have on reading. 1.3. Devotion of charity The larger space ones hea

34、rt is, the bigger his dream is. Helen Keller practiced the dictum. Helen yearned to live a common life and open the prison of mind; it was such a dream that drove her out of darkness no matter what difficulties it has.Starting in May 1888, Keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1894

35、, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1

36、900, to Radcliffe College, where she lived in Briggs Hall, South House. Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education. In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf b

37、lind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She maintained a correspondence with the Austrian philosopher and pedagogue Wilhelm Jerusalem, who was one of the first to discover her literary talent. Determined to communicate with others as conventionally as possible, Keller learned to speak, and sp

38、ent much of her life giving speeches and lectures. She learned to “hear” peoples speech by reading their lips with her handsher sense of touch had become extremely subtle. She became proficient at using braille and reading sign language with her hands as well. Shortly before World War I, with the as

39、sistance of the Zoellner Quartet she determined that by placing her fingertips on a resonant tabletop she could experience music played close by.Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, amid numerous other causes. She

40、was a suffragist, a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson, a radical socialist and a birth control supporter. In 1915 she and George Kessler founded the Helen Keller International (HKI) organization. This organization is devoted to research in vision, health and nutrition. In 1920 she helped to fo

41、und the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Keller traveled to 40 some-odd countries with Sullivan, making several trips to Japan and becoming a favorite of the Japanese people. Keller met every U.S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, in

42、cluding Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain. Keller and Twain were both considered radicals at the beginning of the 20th century, and as a consequence, their political views have been forgotten or glossed over in popular perception.Keller was a member of the Socialist Party and act

43、ively campaigned and wrote in support of the working class from 1909 to 1921. She supported Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs in each of his campaigns for the presidency. 2. Analysis of Anne Sullivan2.1. Dedicated and patientJohanna “Anne” Mansfield Sullivan Macy, better known as Anne Sulliva

44、n, was an American teacher, best known for being the instructor and companion of Helen Keller. Sullivan was born on April 14, 1866 in Feeding Hills, Agawam, Massachusetts. According to her baptismal certificate, her name at birth was Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; however, she was called Anne or Annie

45、from birth. Her parents were Thomas and Alice Sullivan, Irish immigrants who reportedly couldnt read and were almost penniless. Alice died in 1874, probably from tuberculosis. Anne had three other siblings: James, Ellen, and Mary. After the death of their mother, Anne and her younger brother, James

46、was sent to an almshouse in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, where Jimmie eventually died. Anne spent seven years there. In 1880, blind from an untreated trachoma, she was sent to the Perkins School for the Blind. Some teachers at Perkins recognized Sullivans intelligence and tamed her headstrong ways. Mic

47、hael Anagnos, director of the Institute, then located in South Boston, encouraged her to tutor younger students. She also underwent eye surgery that partially restored her vision. While at Perkins, Anne befriended and learned the manual alphabet from Laura Bridgman, herself a graduate of Perkins and

48、 the first person with deaf blindness to be educated. Sullivan graduated from Perkins School for the Blind in 1886, when she was 20 years old, as the valedictorian of her class and gave the valedictory address. Anagnos was approached to suggest a teacher for a deaf-blind girl, Helen Keller. He asked

49、 Sullivan, she visually impaired and only 20 years old, to become her instructor. Sullivan arrived at Kellers house in the small Alabama town of Tuscumbia on March 3, 1887. It was the beginning of a 49-year relationship, Sullivan evolving first into governess, and then companion.As soon as she arriv

50、ed at the Kellers house in Tuscumbia, Alabama, as a young instructor from the north, she quarreled with Helens parents about the Civil War and over the fact that the Kellers used to own slaves. She met six-year-old Helen and immediately began to teach her to communicate, by spelling words into her h

51、and, beginning with “doll” for the doll that she had brought her as a present. Keller was frustrated at first, because she did not understand that every object had a word uniquely identifying it. Her big breakthrough in communication came the next month. She realized that the motions her teacher was

52、 making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of water. She then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world. As lifelong companions, Sullivan and Keller continually lived, worked, and traveled toge

53、ther. 2.2. Professional and ResponsibleAnne Sullivan arrived at Kellers house in March 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with “d-o-l-l” for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present. Keller was frustrated, at first, because s

54、he did not understand that every object had a word uniquely identifying it. In fact, when Sullivan was trying to teach Keller the word for “mug”, Keller became so frustrated she broke the doll. Kellers big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teac

55、her was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of “water”; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.Teacher should be professional and responsible. Anne Sullivan pours all of her l

56、ove into Helen, which is selfless and grand. As a disabled person like Helen, it is when she met Anne Sullivan that she could change her life thoroughly. Anne Sullivan used her whole life staying with Helen and teaching Helen. She made Helen changed from a ignorance, rude and fiery child into a brav

57、e authoress. She strongly encouraged Helens parents to send the child to the Perkins School for the Blind where she could have an appropriate teaching. With their approval, Sullivan brought Helen to Boston in 1888 and stayed with her there. Anne continued to teach her bright protge, who soon became

58、famous for her remarkable progress. With the help of Michael Anagnos, head of the school, Helen Keller became the figure of Perkins School for the Blind and brought funds and donations, making it the most famous and sought-after school for the blind in the country. When Helen graduated from Perkins,

59、 Anne followed her to New York City, where they frequented the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf. In this institution, they tried to acquire the skills of lip-reading and oral speech. 3. Analysis of Kate Adams HellerHer father, Arthur H. Keller, spent many years as an editor for the Tuscumbia North

60、 Alabamian, and had served as a captain for the Confederate Army. Her paternal grandmother was the second cousin of Robert E. Lee. Her mother, Kate Adams, was the daughter of Charles W. Adams. Though originally from Massachusetts, Charles Adams also fought for the Confederate Army during the America

61、n Civil War, earning the rank of colonel (and acting brigadier-general). Her paternal lineage was traced to Casper Keller, a native of Switzerland. One of Helens Swiss ancestors was the first teacher for the deaf in Zurich. Keller reflected on this coincidence in her first autobiography, stating “th

62、at there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.” Helen Keller was born with the ability to see and hear. At 19 months old, she contracted an illness described by doctors as “an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain”, which might

63、 have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness left her both deaf and blind. At that time, she was able to communicate somewhat with Martha Washington, the six-year-old daughter of the family cook, who understood her signs; by the age of seven, Keller had more than 60 home signs to communicate

64、with her family.Learning was tough for Helen. Because of her deafness and blindness, no one could get through to her, and she could not communicate with others. Basic rules and lessons made no sense to her, and she was called a “wild child”. Then, in 1886, her mom heard about the Perkins School for

65、the Blind in Boston from Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. Helen reminded Bell of another girl named Laura Bridgman, who was deaf and blind. Kate wrote to the head of the Perkins School to ask for a teacher for Helen and they sent their star student, Anne Sullivan. The day she arrivedMarch 3, 1887Helens life changed. In 1886, Kellers mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens American Notes