Question

How does Helen feel when she breaks the new doll? How do her feelings change after she understands what words are?

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

Helen Keller, born in 1880, was blind and deaf. Annie Sullivan was the tutor hired to teach Helen. Keller's memories are told in the book "The Story of My Life."

How does Helen feel when she breaks the new doll?

Annie gives Helen a doll as a means to try to have Helen understand that everything has a name in this world. She keeps spelling the word "doll" on Helen's hand, but Helen gets frustrated and ends up breaking the doll. At first, she fells delighted. She enjoys touching the many pieces of the broken doll:

". . .  keenly delighted when I felt the fragments of the broken doll at my feet."

How do her feelings change after she understands what words are?

Annie perseveres and finally gets Helen to understand that different things have different names. She places Helen's hand under a stream of water and then spells "water" on her palm. When Helen understands what Annie's purpose was, she feels sorry for having broken the doll:

“for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow.”