Read this excerpt from Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story o Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a
great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore w
with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship be
compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near th
wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that
The morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and
Perkins Institution had sent it and Laura Bridgman had dressed it;
had played with it a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled int
interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it. When I finally su
flushed with childish pleasure and pride. Running downstairs to
letters for doll. I did not know that I was spelling a word or even
fingers go in monkey-like imitation. In the days that followed I lea
great many words, among them pin, hat, cup and a few verbs like si
Based on this excerpt, which words best describe Helen Keller?