Explain Helen Keller's history. How did she use her functioning senses to compensate for what she was born without? Is she a motivational figure in your eyes? Why or why not?

Helen Keller's memoir, The Story of My Life, can be seen as an inspirational account of her overcoming multiple disabilities. In it, Keller shows how she used smell, her ability to sense vibration, and most powerfully, touch, to make connections with a world she could not see or hear.
Despite there being no established method of teaching a blind and deaf child, Sullivan and Keller innovate a new method of communication in which Sullivan signs letters into Keller's hands. An episode from her life that demonstrates her determination to overcome societal obstacles, with the help of Miss Sullivan, is graduating from Radcliffe at a time when there were almost no accommodations for students with disabilities. She describes having to work much harder than the other students to gain knowledge they could much more easily acquire.
Keller's not only fought her way to an education, but she discovered her own inspirations, which she discusses in her writing. She loved nature, for example, and many beautiful passages in her memoir are filled the scents of flowers and the feel of the breeze. She loved her mother and Miss Sullivan, and she loved reading, which opened up worlds to her that otherwise would have been closed. Further, she became a renowned advocate and speaker for disability rights, women's suffrage and rights, socialism, antimilitarism, and other progressive causes.