"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
             Helen Keller is a person who displays outstanding character because by hard work and perseverance, she was able to overcome physical incapacities and then helped other like herself and became an inspiration to many. She lived in a dark world without seeing or hearing anything but she brought light and stood out in a world that she could not see.
             Helen Keller was born of June 27, 1880 in a small town in Northwest Alabama. She was the daughter of Captain Arthur Henley Keller and Kate Adams Keller. Helen was a normal child until February 1882 when Helen suddenly became ill. At that time, doctors couldn't identify what disease had attacked Helen, and they expected her to die in a few days. Doctors today think that she could have had scarlet fever or meningitis. Whatever it was, Helen mysteriously recovered from it although not completely. Helen's illness had left her both deaf and blind.
             Helen became and angry child. She could not speak, hear, or see and that made her get frustrated and have tantrums. She smashed dishes and ate with her hands in a very disgusting manner. Her relatives even considered her to be a monster and though that she should be institutionalized. When Helen turned six, her mother decided that Helen needed some kind of teacher that specialized in blind children. She then wrote to the director of Perkins Institution for the Blind and asked for a teacher for Helen. Anne Sullivan was sent to the Keller home. She was a young woman and partially blind herself. She moved with Helen to a small cottage near the house and fought day after day to teach Helen how to behave how to read and write. Helen struggled against Annie for a few weeks but then a bond grew between then and they established a relationship
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