Describe Helen Keller's family.
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Arthur H. Keller was a captain in the Confederate Army while her mother, Kate Adams, was his second wife and many years younger than him. Helen's father was the most loving and indulgent, devoted to his home, seldom leaving us, except in the hunting season as he was a seasoned hunter. Next to his family, he loved his dogs and gun. His hospitality was top notch. He used to take special pride in his garden and it was his nurturing touch which led Helen from tree to tree and vine to vine as he took eager delight in whatever pleased his daughter. Helen's father was also a famous storyteller and exhibited a wonderful level patience while narrating stories to his daughter. The event that happened was the death of her father from a short illness in the summer of 1896, a brief time of acute suffering and then it was all over. That was the first great sorrow, her first personal experience with death.
Helen had been too close to her mother and that made her think that writing about such an intimate and important relationship in her life seemed indelicate. Helen demonstrates the love that she had for her mother by narrating the jealousy that she felt towards her own sister. For a long time, she regarded her little sister as an intruder because she claimed a share of the total affection of her mother. She knew that with the arrival of Mildred, Helen had ceased to be her mother's only darling and that thought filled her with jealousy. Helen's initial journey through her unfortunate illness was shaped by her mother, it was her hand which steadily Helen through the darkness of those times.
Helen was born in Tuscumbia, a little town of northern Alabama, where she lived up to the time of the illness which deprived her of her sight and hearing. It was a tiny house which consisted of a large square room and a small one, in which the servant slept. It was a custom in the South of America to build a small house near the homestead as an annex to be used on occasions. Such a house was built by Helen's father after the Civil War when he married Helen's mother. It was completely covered with vines, climbing roses and honeysuckles and from the garden it looked like an arbour. The little porch was hidden from view by a screen of yellow roses and Southern smilax making it the favourite haunt of humming birds and bees. The Keller homestead, where the family lived was a few steps away from the little rose bower and was called the 'Ivy Green' because the house, surrounding trees and fences were covered with beautiful English ivy.
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Arthur H. Keller was a captain in the Confederate Army while her mother, Kate Adams, was his second wife and many years younger than him. Helen's father was the most loving and indulgent, devoted to his home, seldom leaving us, except in the hunting season as he was a seasoned hunter. Next to his family, he loved his dogs and gun. His hospitality was top notch. He used to take special pride in his garden and it was his nurturing touch which led Helen from tree to tree and vine to vine as he took eager delight in whatever pleased his daughter. Helen's father was also a famous storyteller and exhibited a wonderful level patience while narrating stories to his daughter. The event that happened was the death of her father from a short illness in the summer of 1896, a brief time of acute suffering and then it was all over. That was the first great sorrow, her first personal experience with death.
Helen had been too close to her mother and that made her think that writing about such an intimate and important relationship in her life seemed indelicate. Helen demonstrates the love that she had for her mother by narrating the jealousy that she felt towards her own sister. For a long time, she regarded her little sister as an intruder because she claimed a share of the total affection of her mother. She knew that with the arrival of Mildred, Helen had ceased to be her mother's only darling and that thought filled her with jealousy. Helen's initial journey through her unfortunate illness was shaped by her mother, it was her hand which steadily Helen through the darkness of those times.
Helen was born in Tuscumbia, a little town of northern Alabama, where she lived up to the time of the illness which deprived her of her sight and hearing. It was a tiny house which consisted of a large square room and a small one, in which the servant slept. It was a custom in the South of America to build a small house near the homestead as an annex to be used on occasions. Such a house was built by Helen's father after the Civil War when he married Helen's mother. It was completely covered with vines, climbing roses and honeysuckles and from the garden it looked like an arbour. The little porch was hidden from view by a screen of yellow roses and Southern smilax making it the favourite haunt of humming birds and bees. The Keller homestead, where the family lived was a few steps away from the little rose bower and was called the 'Ivy Green' because the house, surrounding trees and fences were covered with beautiful English ivy.
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