is what i'm currently reading. i'm supposed to study a bunch of COMELEC resolutions for tomorrow's duties but after working two saturdays in a row, i feel that i needed a break from all the legalese i've been confronted all week (not to mention the dead end i've reached in one of the defenses i've tried to raise in an answer to a complaint, sigh).
i'm down to the last 40 pages, and i've immensely enjoyed every single page of this book. Annie Sullivan, who also became blind at an early age but got her eyesight back is teaching Helen Keller the three things she too learned to gain independence and be viewed as capable human beings, these are: obedience, love and language. to Annie, obedience is required of Hellen so that Annie could teach her. love, not the love that is tantamount to overindulgence and smothering but a love that could enable the person loved to be the person he/she is supposed to be. language, since Hellen is both blind and deaf, teaching her language was the tedious part. i'm still in the part where Helen's abilities consists of spelling words by writing the letters on Annie's palm, but there are times when Helen would still resort to her own signs to convey a word she already knows how to spell. much to Annie's frustration, she couldn't leave Hellen for fear that her family would only be content to have a tame and quiet Helen (which Annie achieved by subduing Helen because before that, Helen was likened to a savage beast who only knows two emotions, anger and pleasure) when Annie knew for a fact that Helen's mind was bright, after all, she spoke her first words at 6-months old.
i'll return to the book and find out how Annie bridges the gap between what's in Helen's mind and communicating it to the people around her.
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