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Three Days to See(Narrative Essay)
by Helen Keller
M.T. 31401418
Helen Keller
Helen Keller Born on June 27,1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama U.S Died on June 1, 1968 in Westport, Connecticut American Author who was blind and deaf. when she was 19 months she had an illness called
Scarlet fever (brain fever) Examined by Alexander Graham Bell at the age of 6. She feel objects and spelled out words by finger
signals on her palm. Graduated at Radcliffe College as Cum Laude in
1904.
Introduction: It would be an excellent rule to live each day
as if we should die tomorrow Darkness would make him more appreciative
of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.
If I were the president of university I should establish a compulsory course “How to Use Your Eyes”
Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy
(Teacher)
Dog
House
Friends
First Day: I should gaze long upon the face of my dear teacher, Mrs.
Anne Sullivan Macy. I do not know what it is to see into the heart of a friend
through that “window of the soul” I should look at all my friends long into their faces,
imprinting upon my mind the outward evidences of the beauty that is within them.
I should like to look into the loyal, trusting eyes of my dogs.
I should also view the small simple things of my house. I should take a long walk into the woods and intoxicate
my eyes on the beauty of the world of Nature.
Sunshine
Museum
Theatre
Second Day: I should behold with awe the magnificent panorama of
light with which the sun awakens the sleeping earth. I should devote to a hasty glimpse of the world, past and
present. I should want to see the pageant of man’s progress, the
kaleidoscope of the ages. Through the museums Metropolitan Museum of Arts unfold the spirit of Egypt,
Greece and Rome I should try to probe into the soul of man through his
arts I should spend at a theatre or at the movies.
City Empire State building
Third Day: I shall spend in the workday world of the present I start from my home in the quiet little suburb of Forest Hills, Long
Island I look ahead, and before me rise the fantastic towers of New York, a
city that seems to have stepped from the pages of fairy story. I hurry to the top of one of those gigantic structures, the Empire
State building I stand at a busy corner, merely looking at people, trying by sight of
them to understand something of their lives I stroll down Fifth Avenue. To Park Avenue, to slums, to factories, to parks where children play.
“USE YOUR EYES AS IF TOMORROW YOU WOULD BE
STRIKEN BLIND”