假如给我三天光明论文

Analysis of Helen Keller's life path mirrored by Three Days to See（英语商务系071 袁小迪）Helen Keller, whose extraordinary life journey from a blind girl to an eminent person, creating a new legend of disabled person. Helen Keller's success is not only the success of Miss Sullivan's education, but also the success of her own spirit of never-say-die. Just as Helen says, "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement". In this sense, it is her positive optimism towards the life that making Helen Keller a successful person.Fate is like a monster of volatile temperament. It can make lucky person prevailing, and can also make the misfortune person torturing. In face of the ruthless fate, people always appear as weak and helpless. A sudden illness of scarlet fever destroyed Helen Keller's bright world of 19 months, she suddenly fell into a world of boundless darkness. She is so afeared, sorrowful and irritated that no words can describe the feeling of suddenly throwing into the darkness from the bright world. However, the fate brought her Miss Sullivan. With Sullivan's love, Helen Keller gradually went out of the negative mood, and cheer up to fight with her unfortunate fate. In his book, Helen Keller wrote down like this, "The greatest disaster, not the wounds of the past, but in the future to give up". For a girl without hearing and sight, it is difficult simply to open her mouth to speak. For she can not hear any voice of others and herself, shehas to use a hand to touch and feel the movement of her teacher's throat and lips as Miss Sullivan is speaking. A success pronunciation often needs thousands of times to imitate and correct. In this period, she wrote, "My work was practice, practice, practice. Discouragement and weariness cast me down frequently; but the next moment the thought that I should soon be at home and show my loved ones what I had accomplished, spurred me on, and I eagerly looked forward to their pleasure in my achievement". When Helen can speak the first complete sentence like "it's really hot", she and Sullivan realized that perseverance can overcome any difficulties. However, the fate didn't stop teasing her despite her disabled body. When she was 12 years old, she wrote the first short story The frost king, and make a great stir. But soon people found this story is similar to Miss Cambay's work The Frost Fairies. The accidental similarity hit Helen heavily, she was almost fear of writing. In writing her last work, teacher, a fire accident burn up her 20 years' collections of notes and letters, together with the Braille library and the exquisite craft gift given by many countries. Helen was not discouraged by this hit. She is like a true fighter full of spirit, and prepare to deal with all kinds of misfortune at any time, and stubbornly fight to the final victory. Just as she said clearly in her book, "…but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bar the way. Fain would I question his imperious decree; for my heart is still undisciplined and passionate".Cherish and pursuit the value of life constitute another important aspect of people's viewpoints of life. We cannot determine the length of life, but we can decide the width and height of life. As a blind-deaf woman, Helen Keller could feel at ease to enjoy social sympathy and relief for her disability, but she did not. However, she choose a challenging and brambly way to realize her dream for life. In spite of her defect, she cherish all she have in reality. She used soulful word to urge people, "live each day as is his last day", and strive to live a valuable life. She believes that "for the above over the fate of the people, confidence is fate". In the darkness and lonely world, she overcome lots of physiological obstacles and limitations one after another. With her indomitable willpower, Helen keller grasped the skill of lip-reading, and can "hear" by her hand others' talk. She mastered English, French, German, Greek, Latin, and graduated from Radcliffe college of Harvard University with excellent scores. She kept punching and became a world-renown writer and educator of knowledge. Besides reading, she likes riding horses, swimming, boating, likes drama, likes visiting the museum and places of historic interest. Her travel all over the United States and the world, dedicated all her life to the disadvantaged groups' education, welfare, especially the blind. For this reason, she won the praise and respect around the world. Her unimaginable achievement in so many fields, is hard to accomplish even for a wholesome person, whereasHelen made it. With her perseverance and never-yielding will, Helen Keller grow from a seemingly unvalued person into a prominent woman of great success, and realized her value of life. She set a good example of self-improvement and stick-at-itiveness for the disabled and all the people worldwide. German philosopher Friedrich Hegel once said, "Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object". Helen Keller is no doubt the person who created value for the world and thus multiplied the value of herself.Helen Keller was suddenly shut off from the world at the age of 19 months by the loss of sight and hearing. However, love and warm has been always around her after Miss Sullivan's arrival. She guide Helen step out of the darkness and loneliness with her sincere love and wisdom. It would be impossible for Helen's accessing to miracle without the help of Sullivan, the outstanding deaf children educator. Helen express her deep gratitude to Sullivan in her story of the book, she said that if there are three days to see, "first I should like to gaze long upon my dear teacher". Helen Keller inherited the moral character of her teacher's love. At age 10, Helen had successfully raised two years' schooling for a five-year-old deaf-blind child. Maybe from then on, she made her mind to help all the people in need in the world. After she had graduated from Radcliffe college of Harvard University, she served as President of the American Foundation for the Blind, and went hither and thither, built up alot of charitable institutions, and devoted herself to salvage the disabled children, guarded women's rights for racial equality and social activities. Because of her dedication for the vulnerable groups and the promotion of humankind's confidence, she had been voted as one of the 10 top American idols in the 20th century by Time Magazine, and was awarded "Presidential Medal of Freedom" by the government of the United States, etc. Sartre says, "Hell is other people", undoubtedly, Helen Keller regard others as heaven. For a disabled person that maimed of natural life, even just a little of decadence, can destroy her confidence of the whole world. However, Helen knew that her new life is given by love, her teacher's love, her family's love, and so on, she must requite more love to her teacher and all the people she loved. In her 88years of lifetime, Helen go all out so long as it is truly benefit to the society. She expressed her gratitude in such a practical way.The famous American writer, Mark Twain once said: "The two most interesting characters of the nineteenth century are Napoleon and Helen Keller", The difference between them lies that Napoleon had thirsted for conquer the world by force, he failed, but Helen Keller succeeded by her invincible spiritual strength!-END-。