My hero: Helen Keller

My hero: Helen Keller

A hero is a person who you want to be like her/him in the future. He/She is a person who you consider as a model to follow. The word hero is given to a person who does whatever he can in order to help people and tries to solve their problem, so there are many qualities can be used to describe a hero. A hero can be honest, brave, visionary and helpful person. In this essay I am going to write about my heroine "Helen Keller".

Who is Helen Keller? Helen Keller was born on 27 June 1880 in Tuscumbia, a small town in the USA. She was a normal, healthy baby but she got ill when she was nineteen months as a result she lost her sight and hearing. She became blind and deaf. Her parents took her to doctors to help her but they couldn't. So Alexander Graham Bill suggested to them to ask for a teacher from Perkins School for the blind. They found a teacher for their daughter, her name was Annie Sullivan. In 1887, Annie arrived to Tuscumbia and immediately she started to use finger spelling in Helen's hand to name objects. Helen quickly learned the finer spelling pattern but she thought it was kind of a game and did not understand that it was the names of the objects. One day she discovered that it was not a game but the names of the objects that she touched since then she never stopped learning till she learned how to read and write with Braille. By the age of 8 years she went with Annie to the Perkins School for the blind. At the end of the school, Helen decided to go to collage where normal study. She graduated in 1904.

While Helen was in collage she wrote a book called "The Story of my Life" .later on, she wrote another two books about her life. Helen became very famous and spent much of her life traveling all around the world giving lectures and telling people how they could help the blind and deaf. When she got older she spent her time in the USA helping to raise money for deaf and blind people.

If you asked me why I choose this person as my heroine all I can say that she deserve to be a heroine. She faced a lot of challenges since her childhood and   also in the collage but that did not stop her from achieving her dreams. She also supported blind and deaf people by giving lectures about helping them while she was traveling. Moreover, she lived to raise money form them when she was old. I really admire her that is why I decided to be a teacher for blind and deaf children in the future. I hope that I will achieve this dream.

At last, it is very important to have heroes or heroines in our life because they are a model for us to follow. We can also learn from them good things about life. So, if you have a hero or a heroine and you love them so much try to be like them and follow their steps.

To read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

All the information I mentioned in my essay are taken from grade 6 for Basic Education which is published by the Ministry of Education in Oman. 

Name: Latifa Al Rashidi

Grade 12/2

Al Billah School (11-12)

Submitted to: Tr. Zainab Al Yahmedi