Esl 5-02 Journal #1 In The Most Important

NameESL 5-02 Professor Clara Lam11/07/2016Journal #1In “The most important day of my life” Hellen Keller narrates her encounter with her teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan and how this encounter transformed her life. Three months before her seventh birthday Hellen Keller was lost and without direction. Hellen Keller compares her situation to that of a ship in deep fog and in desperate need for light in order to find direction to the shore. The encounter with her teacher and experience of learning gave Hellen Keller a wonderful sense of meaning and discovery. In her own words “That was because I saw everything with the strange, new sight that had come to me.” P 84 (in ESL 5 Supplement Course Pack compiled by Clara Lam, De Anza Bookstore: Fall 2016).Hellen Keller brings the story to life by using a lot of imagery. Before the encounter with her teacher Hellen Keller could only discover a sense of time and season by smelling honeysuckle and fingering leaves and brooms. This description easily creates an image in the mind of the reader. In the recent past Hellen Keller’s life had been preyed upon by emotions of anger, bitterness and a sense of