From Water by Helen Keller. The morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and gave me a doll. The little blind chil
dren at the Perkins Institution had sent it and Laura Bridgman had dressed it; but I did not know this until afterward. When I had played with it a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word "d-o-l-l." I was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it. When I finally succeeded in making the letters correctly I was flushed with childish pleasure and pride. Running downstairs to my mother I held up my hand and made the letters for doll. I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation. In the days that followed I learned to spell in this uncomprehending way a great many words, among them pin, hat, cup and a few verbs like sit, stand and walk. But my teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood that everything has a name. What might the following passage from "Water" lead you to predict?
In the days that followed I learned to spell in this uncomprehending way a great many words, among them pin, hat, cup and a few verbs like sit, stand and walk. But my teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood that everything has a name.
A. The family will send away the teacher
B. The narrator will continue to learn with her fingers
C. The narrator will return the doll to the blind children.
D. The family will become upset with the narrator's imitating.
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The answer is B) The narrator will continue to learn with her fingers
Explanation:
This is because it clearly states that she did not know everything had a name until several weeks later. She was still a child, and she says that she was proud that she had made the hand-gestures correctly, then ran to her mother to show her what she had learned. She is still a blind child. She still needs to learn more sign language. Of course she will learn more!
It is foreshadowed that Susan is at a zenith, a highpoint in her life. This, however seems to be the last highpoint that she will ever be at, insinuating that the rest of her life was much more depressing and less exciting.
