Helen Keller: A True Hero

As we go through life we hit bumps in the orad and overcome obstacles in our everyday struggles. As humans we are always taking what we have for granted and never come to be appreciative of what we do have. Helen Keller, although blind, deaf, and mute never let her disabilities stop her. She was a women who appreciated every day of life and demonstrates true heroism to all. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was the first born of two girls, born to Arthur and Katherine Keller. In 1882 she contracted an illness called “Brain Fever,” resulting in her becoming blind, deaf, and mute. At the age of six she began learning from Anne Sullivan. These two stayed very close up until Anne’s death in 1936. Keller’s obvious