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The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

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is one of the most interesting people of any century, and her amazing life, in which she overcame the seemingly insurmountable odds of blindness and deafness, continues to serve as  a source of inspiration. Her tale of triumph over adversity is chronicled in her amazing memoir, The Story of My Life, which was originally published back in 1903, when  Miss Keller was just 22 years old and preparing to graduate from Radcliffe College. While it may seem unfathomable that such a young woman could have sufficient life experience  to pen an autobiography at such a tender age, Helen Keller was no ordinary woman. Her formative years were like few others, and as her story details, her early  life strengthened the intellectual, emotional and spiritual foundation that would sustain her throughout her incredible eighty-eight year life. The Story of My Life is just that, a simple and straightforward  account of a life that was anything but simple and straightforward. She acknowledges the difficulty of an adult in distinguishing between the fanciful impressions of a child and a  realistic representation of events as they actually happened. She observed with charming candor and touching eloquence, "The woman paints the childs experiences in her own fantasy. A few  impressions stand out vividly from the first years of my life; but "the shadows of the prisonhouse are on the rest." Besides, many of the joys and sorrows of childhood  have lost their poignancy; and many incidents of vital importance in my early education have been forgotten in the excitement of great discoveries" (3). The first part of the  autobiography is subdivided into twenty-three short chapters, in which Miss Keller provides the readers with ancestral background; her birth in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880; and details of her