Some things that many people knew like greetings, she had no idea they even existed. For some of her childhood, she was oblivious to many things that surrounded her. Since Helen couldn't see she had to feel for things instead. Her relatives were so disgusted manners that they started calling her the, “Wild Child”. A little while later Helen, with the help of their cooks daughter Martha Washington they made their own way to communicate with each other using signs they made up. By the time they were around seven years old they had made up over sixty signs but around that age Helen had become wild. She would kick and scream when she was angry, and laugh uncontrollably when she was happy she had mood swings very often. She started to torment Martha, and threw raging tantrums for no reason at all. Most of her relatives felt she should be institutionalized. The reason Helen acted like that was because she didn't know that was the wrong way to act. She thought what she was doing was ok because no one ever told her it was not and even if they did she didn't …show more content…
Kate wrote to the school asking for a teacher for Helen. They sent over Anne Sullivan a recent graduate, and their star student. She arrived March third , eighteen eighty seven the day Helen Keller's life changed forever. The day she arrived, she started by teaching Helen finger spelling she would also bring in the item so Helen would understand that there's a name to a certain thing. Helen would get frustrated and sometimes refuse to participate, but when she did participate she couldn't understand. About a month later, Anne put Helen's hand under a water pump while signing the word water into it and in Helen's mind it just clicked. She then understood everything had a meaning and a name. Anne Sullivan was the miracle worker who impacted Helen's life the most. In May eighteen eighty eight Helen along with Anne went to Perkins school for the blind. Helen became very popular and had many friends, but the reason she enjoyed it was being around other kids like her . In eighteen nineteen, she wrote a story she called The frost king for Anagnos birthday. He was very happy and decided to publish it in the Perkins Alumni magazine. A little while later he was informed it was very much like a book that was already published. Helen shocked remember that a few months earlier she read the original and somehow rewrote it though she thought it was her own creation.