English "View from the empire state building"
What do you think is Keller's sighted friends opinion of the Empire State Building? Use details from the text to support your answer
- Materialism / Capitalism - Superiority "superlative" - Power "demigod" authority - American narcissism "vanity" - Luxury "most costly"
Describe the main reason she wrote this letter for?
She wants to describe how unique, awesome and gorgeous her experience with in the building was.
Helen Keller uses:
1) Deeper insight 2) Deeper internal vision 3) Limitless imagination
Helen Keller's sighted friends see that Empire State Building:
1) Materialism- capitalism 2) Superiority "superlative" 3) Power "demigod"-authority 4) American narcissism "vanity" 5) Luxury "most costly"
Helen Keller Empire State Building symbols:
1) Poetry "poetical" 2) Creativity 3) Idealism/ Perfection 4) Imagination victory 5) Skills/ Talents 6) Romanticism 7) Mysticism/ Spirituality 8) Inspiration
Who accompanies Keller to the top of the Empire State Building?
A blind friend and a guide.
Unconquerable Meaning
Difficult enemy (but not victorious)
Dominating Meaning
Have power and influence over
What question is Helen Keller answering in her letter?
Helen was answering Dr.Finlay's question of her experience of the Empire State Building.
According to Keller, how does a Frenchman describe the way Americans imagine themselves?
I'm negative words, he thinks they are arrogant, narcissistic and demigods.
Indomitable Meaning
Impossible to defeat/invincible (can be victorious)
What can you infer about Keller's understanding of sight? Give an evidence from the text.
Keller understands sight as limited and imperfect, contrary to what she thinks the blind can see. She said that the blind see 'bluer skies than the ordinary eye can see' , and those with vision see 'stranger grass' unlike the 'greener grass' the blind invision.
(-dom) Meaning & Example
Meaning: home- house- high rank- master. Example: kingdom- Domestic- Dominate
(-lum) Meaning & Example
Meaning: light Example: Luminous- illuminate
Cynics Meaning
People who see the Empire State Building as materialism
What symbolic meaning does Keller find in t he Empire State Building?
Poetry, creativity, idealism, imagination victory, skills, romanticism, mysticism and inspiration
What does Keller think of missing sight?
She feels blessed and thinks that imagination is enough.
What does Helen think of blindness?
She sees that blindness is a blessing and a gift because she can use her imagination.
Prepositional Phrase
a modifying phrase consisting of a preposition and its object.
Adverbial Phrase
if the prepositional phrase answers when, where, why, to what extent, or under what conditions., A phrase that functions as an adverb.
