Chapter 2: Helen records the rest of her childhood after her recovery of the illness, in which time she has already been deaf blind. She sits in mum's lap or clung to her dress as she goes about mum's household duties, using hands to feel every object and observed every motion. She says that she owes her mother's loving wisdom all that was bright and good in her long night. Through Helen's description, I can see a person who uses poor vocabulary, considerable and
merciful. Helen's father is an editor of a newspaper. Her earliest distinct recollection of her father is making her way through the drifts of newspapers to his side and finding him alone, holding a sheet of paper before his face. This is a scene of peace and love, filled with the sunlight of the afternoon. She regards him as a man loving and indulgent, devoted to his home, seldom leaving except in the hunting season. To her great sorrow, father dies of a short illness in 1896, with a brief time of acute suffering. This is her first personal experience with death. I can feel that, though Helen has received love from parents, and has fun with her mere two companions, Martha Washington, the child of the cook, and Belle, an old dog, her childhood is full of loneliness and caprice. Until Sullivan comes to her rescue, bring her light and wisdom.
Chapter 3: With the time passes, Helen's desire to express herself grows. The few signs she used becomes less adequate, and the failures of make herself understood are invariably followed by outbursts of passion. Her parents are deeply grieved and perplexed for this, and thus start the long way of curing her sickness, which is the theme of this chapter. They lives far from any special schools for disabled children, but Dicken's \" American Notes\" inspires them, which is a account of Laura Bridgman, a deaf and blind, yet have been educated. They travel from Alabama to Baltimore to call on a eminent oculist, while he indicates that he can do nothing. But the kind and warm-hearted gentleman advice Helen's father to consult Dr. Alexander Graham Bell who would be able to give them information about schools and teachers of deaf or blind children. The family then goes to Washington and finally receives the help from Dr. Bell. A teacher is found and is convinced to arrive. The end of this chapter presents Helen's hope and delight:
\"Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said,\" Knowledge is love and light and vision.\" \"
Chapter 4: In the March of 1887 comes the most important day of Helen, on which her teacher Sullivan comes to her. One the afternoon of that eventful day, a few hours before Sullivan's arrival, Helen has guessed something unusual will happen from mum's signs and from the hurrying to and fro in the house. When hearing the approaching steps, she stretches her hands as she supposed to her mother, but some-one takes it. It's Sullivan, an angle comes to reveal all things to her, and, more than all things else, to love her. On that eventful day happens another thing: Helen starts to learn words. When Helen touches an object, Sullivan spells it in her hand, and after several tries Helen succeeds in connecting the object with a certain word. She realizes that everything in this world has its own name, and father, mother, sister teacher are among them. Words that are to make the world blossom for her, \"like Aaron's rod, with flowers.\"
Chapter 5: When the time of daisies and buttercups comes Miss Sullivan takes Helen by the hand across the fields, making friends with nature. Helen feels the kindness and the beneficence of nature by smelling the fragrant woods and feeling the heat of the sunlight. However, on the other hand, she has an experience which teaches her that nature is not always kind. One day when Helen and her teacher return from a long ramble, they have a rest under a wild cherry tree. The shade is grateful, and the tree is so easy to climb that with Sullivan's assistance she succeeds in climbing up and sitting in the branches. Sullivan goes back to home to
fetch the lunch, and just during her absence the weather changes and a strange odour comes from the earth, which precedes a thunderstorm. A nameless fear clutches her heart and suddenly she feels helpless and surrounded by immense darkness. It was until she was knocked down by the wind that Sullivan comes to her rescue. These experiences, no matter bright dreams or nightmare, have shaped her spirit and enriched her during the long night.
The book tells Helen Keller's whole rough life and her spirit experience. With the help of Sullivan, she recovered the optimism towards life. Rely on the desire and pursuit of bright, she finally conquered a lot of unimagined difficulties and use her own hands to see the beautiful world. She graduated from Oxford with excellent performance and has made great achievements on literature、education and many other fields. To a blind man, it's really a miracle.
You may not be able to guess what I feel when I read this novel ---- I feel Helen’s happiness! Maybe she is in a world without any color, without any light, no beautiful music, but I think she is in a world with the most abundant light color, the most brilliant beats, cheerful note, because around friends, with love and hope to fill her heart and her world. It really touches me deeply. Compare with Helen, why we still feel that we lack a lot and not happy? I think we have no reason not to cherish our life. God gave us sight, so we can see everything, we can know how wonderful the world is, we can know how lucky we can live in our colorful life. We should appreciate all about that.
In the boundless darkness and silence, Helen has imagined thousand times
that she had a chance to see he world... she said \" If, by some miracle, I were granted three seeing days, to be followed by a relapse into darkness, I should divide the period into three parts... \" Three days, that is, 72 hours. For a normal person, were just a short time that matters nothing. But for Hellen, she strongly believes that if given three days to see...
On the first day, she would want to see the people whose kindness and gentleness and companionship had made her life worth living.
On the second day, she would arise with the dawn and see the thrilling miracle by which night is transformed into day.
On the third day, she would like to spend in the real world, engaged in the daily lives of ordinary people through the middle of the day and New York becomes her destination.
Only three days, Helen can use them to do so many meaningful things, then how about us? We had a life time to grasp the opportunity and create a better life. One philosopher once said :\"Bravery exists in spirit not in a strong body\". It’s true, especially to describe Helen. With a strong heart, she faced misfortune directly. She is really broken in body but firm in spirit. As me, a undergraduate, there is no shortage of physical, living and learning conditions are good, but sometimes I still do not cherish and always complain too much. Through the book Three Days to See, Helen enlightened me.
She tells me that I must correctly deal with difficulties, because everyone will encounter difficulties in life. When troubles come, I should not be afraid, but face up bravely. Then I will try my best to do well in everything everyday. Celebrities once said :\"What is not easy? Is not easy to insist on doing what should be done everyday\" yes, perseverance is vital to success. So in order to get close to my dream, I must make myself more tough and powerful. Helen also tells me that I had better be optimistic. In front of tremendous obstacles and difficulties, she holds a positive attitude and shows great confidence in herself. She said:\"I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God\" and she always believes that \"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us\". It is just this positive mindset encourage her to go ahead without any fear. Thus a good state of mind is really important, to me, to everyone, no matter in work or life.
I admired Helen Keller, her whole life is a legend. She strongly get over the difficulties which can easily destroy one’s mind while her heart is still full of love, grateful and compassion.
Last, I want to share some words in the book which I like best with you :\"Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again, Make the most of every sense;
glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides.\"
Let’s be thankful to our life, be thankful to everything we have. I believe I benefit immensely from Helen, from this book.
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