The Real Life of Helen Keller

Chapter 1

A wise old man once said, "Don't judge a book by its cover," and such is the case with

Helen Keller. Although renown for "overcoming" the "handicap" of being blind and deaf, Helen is

often treated as a helpless being, which frankly is just not the case.

Helen may have been "disabled," as some uneducated ruffians might call it, but this didn't

keep her from seeing and hearing all of the things we do, and even more. Helen's mind had

purposely shut off her access to outer visual images because it was, simply put, unnecessary. Her

mind was evolving into something much more remarkable. Helen couldn't see her hands or her

what she looked like but instead, she saw wild permutations of the coming world. As a child Helen

would often run in fits of rage and anger because of the horrifying images she saw along with the

screeching voices, thus giving way to her bad attitude. Helen would often seek solace in the woods

near her house. In the woods, the bears were plentiful, so Helen regularly vented her pain and

frustration on the bears, beating them time and time again in hand to hand combat. But Helen's

weird life didn't stop there. Soon after Anne arrived to tutor Helen, the two made a connection.

Anne was a retired circus soothsayer, and could relate to Helen's wild screams and cries of future

misery. Anne quickly started forming a bond with Helen and, with time, was able to help her

control her visions. Helen's mind, lacking the stimulation needed to entertain it, began working on

other fields of her being. Soon Helen started noticing when she became extremely flustered or

angered by her tedious lessons the temperature of the room began to fluctuate, followed by items

around the room quaking, almost as if they were afraid of her, surely a foreshadow of the person

Helen would soon become.

On many occasions Helen experimented with her newfound power, indulging in the one

sense she had left. With practice Helen soon learned to control these powers at will. She soon to

take refuge in frolicking with the bears one more. She often froze them, shook the ground beneath

them creating unexpected tremors, or levitating them off the ground, a trick she had perfected with

the help of Harry Houdini. Her secret pleasure was soon discovered though, when Anne followed

her one day to see what she did when she snuck off for hours at a time each day. Anne put two and

two together and wasn't shocked at all by this phenomenon, saying, "I always knew she was

special, she only needed a gentle hand to guide her along the path to greatness." Alas, this

tranquility would not last long. Shortly after this Anne came up with a to way communicate

commands to Helen. Anne came up with this idea one day when she saw Helen poking holes in her

papers with her pencil during her dreaded lessons. Ann used this new form of communication to

control Helen like an unstoppable one man army, spending days reading to her and telling her

what she what she was to do and how to do it via this new language. This language has become

modern day Braille. Helen marveled at her power and soon became terrified of losing control or

becoming corrupt. So, only years after she had discovered it, Helen decided to give it up forever.

She soon consulted with Anne, who agreed after a lengthy explanation, but Anne wasn't going to

give up this solider she had trained so much just yet. Anne's former job as a soothsayer taught her

a few tricks. She hastily went to work. That night she put Helen in a spiritual trance and used her

impervious battle tank to eliminate all the people who called her a fake during her soothsayer

career. Helen awoke days later with no relocation of the events of nights passed. So Anne and

Helen went back to their everyday lives. Until a week later when a surprising knock came at their

door. Helen quickly leaped out of her chair where, even though she was nearly grown, her lessons

continued and raced to the door. It was Alexander Grahm Bell, a cherished friend of Helen's. She

began to greet him when he grabbed her arm and dragged her to the car he had prepared. A

different man grabbed Anne and the two women were whisked away to the Capital building. There

was no conversing in the car, only one sideed questions from Anne and unintelligible mumbles and

grunts from Helen. It took weeks but they finally arrived at the Capital where President Dwight E.

Eisenhower was waiting for them.

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Chapter 2 coming soon!