Gregory DeLoach

1. What is Kellers thesis? What question do you think Keller is trying to answer.
Does her thesis answer her question
a. How important it was for her to meet Ms. Sullivan who changed her
life. She is trying to answer the question of how to obtain knowledge.
Yes, she is given tools to learn by her teacher.

2. What is Kellers purpose?

a. Her purpose is to explain the process of going from darkness to light
through understanding of the world and giving it meaning.

3. What was Kellers state of mind before Anne Sullivan arrived to help her? To
what does she compare herself? How effective is this comparisons?
a. She was angry and bored, generally depressed. She compares herself
to a ship, lost in a dark fog with no compass, or sounding line. Waiting
for something bad to happened. Keller was completely unaware of her
surroundings and unable to compare to world around her.

4. Why was the realization that everything has a name important to Keller?
a. Learning the names of things allowed her to understand and put
meaning into her life and set her on the path of gaining knowledge.

5. How was the mystery of language revealed to Keller? What were the
consequences of her of this new understanding of the nature of language?
a. The sensation of the running water over her hand, coupled with the
teachers finger movements, came together as one. She realized that
water had a name. this understanding of the world allowed the barriers
of her condition to be overcome.

6. Keller narrates the events of the day Sullivan arrived, the morning after she
arrived, and on day several weeks after her arrival. Describe what happens
on each day, and explain how these separate incidents supports Kellers
thesis.
a. On the day Ann arrived she hugged her and made Keller feel loved.
The next morning she taught her the finger movements many objects.
Finally she was able to get Keller to understand that finger movements
related to names of thing and words. These events support her thesis
by explain how Ms. Sullivan was so important in her life by teaching
her how to learn.