Water by Helen Keller

Summary: Water by Helen Keller is about Helen Keller's life associations with words, actions and existence in a day of her life

Characters:

Section 1:

Laura Bridgman dresses a doll from the Perkins Institution and Miss Sullivan gives it to Helen Keller
Helen Keller learns how to spell with her hand which she learns from her teacher, Miss Sullivan
Helen Keller learns over several weeks that everything has a name
Helen is introduced to a new doll and her teacher tries to make her understand that the word doll was for her former doll and her newer doll at the same time
After trying to understand "mug" and "water", Helen got frustrated and broke her newer doll and was "delighted"
Helen went into the sun and had a "thought" which made her have "pleasure"
Helen smelled the "honeysuckle" that covered the path to the well-house and it had a significant, attractive "frangrance"
Helen learns the association of w-a-t-e-r and the cool running "something" and the joy of the "living' word
Helen feels "repentance and sorrow" when she returns to the doll that she broken and tries to put it back together
Helen longs for a new day to come as she remembers learning words and learning about words such as "mother, father, sister, teacher"

Other Notes:

Part of the process of learning to communicate is to not understanding something
People forget sometimes how much touch and smell help us understand many things
The power of feeling joy and sadness is the feeling of living and brings us fulfillment as it brought Helen Keller